Expedition to the End of the World
Argot Pictures | Release Date: August 20, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
77
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Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
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12
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleSep 4, 2014
Composed of breathtaking images and cheeky bits of humor, Dencik's travelogue reveals a journey with curious traces of the past, eye-popping encounters with a wild present and — in discovering an oil company's ship in the group's midst — a weighted reminder of our future as stewards of the Earth. Read full review
90
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlAug 19, 2014
Dencik’s gorgeous, surprising, meditative film opens up one of the world’s last unknown places, and it will also make you want to befriend every Dane you can. Read full review
83
Portland OregonianMarc MohanSep 5, 2014
The resulting documentary is a fascinating meditation on the different ways nature can be experienced, as well as a fatalistic take on the process of our planet's seemingly inevitable change in climate. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubDavid EhrlichAug 20, 2014
The Expedition To The End Of The World courses with the zeal of Robert Flaherty, the fearlessness of Werner Herzog, and the fatalistic humor of Lars Von Trier. While individual moments echo with a familiarly mordant sense of alpha-male adventure, together they cohere into something wild and new. Read full review
80
SalonAndrew O'HehirAug 21, 2014
An experience that wrenches you free of the everyday world and urges you to contemplate all sorts of big-picture questions. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeAug 17, 2014
Visually ravishing, thought-provoking and benefitting from just enough playfulness to set it apart from the nature-doc herd, the film is eco-relevant without being at all dominated by climate change, which is only one of many subjects discussed. Read full review
80
VarietyJohn AndersonAug 17, 2014
With a mood and setting worthy of a murder story by Jack London, this audience-friendly, atmospheric work could be remade as a thriller, although that’s really what it is already. Read full review
75
New York PostFarran Smith NehmeAug 21, 2014
The movie reveals some of the most stunning landscape cinematography imaginable, while everyone on the isolated ship waxes philosophical — as who would not? Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Adam NaymanAug 17, 2014
The interactions between these adventurers, with their varied imperatives and world-views, are compelling and funny – all the more so for being set against such a dramatically blanked-out backdrop. Read full review
70
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldAug 19, 2014
The film is essentially an evolved hybrid of global environmental documentary and the group-trip experiments of reality television. Its biggest step onto unfamiliar terrain might be its ambivalent ending, conveying uncertainty about what can or should be done next. Read full review
70
The DissolveScott TobiasAug 18, 2014
Daniel Dencik’s unusual documentary Expedition To The End Of The World sounds like a grand seafaring adventure, as expeditions to untraversed Arctic territory tend to be, but its tone is much more philosophical. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineChristopher GrayAug 17, 2014
A visual pleasure, and refreshingly free of message or structure, but it leaves an aftertaste similar to that of an awkward party spent among intellectuals. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsJordan HoffmanAug 21, 2014
There’s an introspective quality here, and the gorgeous vistas tilt toward melancholy rather than educational. All on board are curiously resigned to mankind’s death by environment, and take the long view that another life form will one day take our place. Read full review
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