Last Call at the Oasis
ATO Pictures | Release Date: May 4, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jennie PunterMay 25, 2012
There is nothing dry about Last Call at the Oasis, Jessica Yu's engaging, informative and fast-flowing documentary exploring the global water crisis. Read full review
75
Washington PostAnn HornadayMay 11, 2012
As a lucid, emotionally involving portrait of the looming crisis surrounding water - supplies of which are dwindling as contamination rises - Jessica Yu's smartly constructed argument works less as a tutorial than as an infectiously impassioned call to arms. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleAmy BiancolliMay 10, 2012
One can argue the movie's finer points, but in the end, there's no escaping its creeping pile-up of evidence that Mother Earth is critically dehydrated - and we need to do something, fast. Read full review
75
New York PostSara StewartMay 4, 2012
The most engaging is straight-shooting Erin Brockovich (whom you'll remember from that Julia Roberts pic), still helping average Joes fight uphill battles against corporate toxin-dumping. Read full review
70
The New York TimesA.O. ScottMay 3, 2012
However frustrated they may be by political paralysis, corporate trickery or plain human stupidity, none of them seem inclined to give up. When they do, we really will be screwed, and we won't have or need movies like this to tell us so. Read full review
70
MovielineAlison WillmoreMay 3, 2012
Last Call at the Oasis makes a convincing case that we're on the verge of both "Waterworld" and large scale Erin Brockovich-style scenarios. Read full review
70
Village VoiceMichelle OrangeMay 1, 2012
Ultimately, it's all connected, and with as fascinating and far-ranging an issue as this one, you can't fault the director for wanting to fit it all in. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeApr 30, 2012
Following the template of documentaries bent on scaring viewers silly, Oasis winds up with a segment pointing to glimmers of hope, one of which addresses the marketing challenge of convincing citizens that recycled waste water is safe for drinking. Read full review
70
VarietyJohn AndersonApr 30, 2012
Whether the glass is half full or half empty isn't the point of the effervescent Last Call at the Oasis: It's whether there'll be anything in the glass at all. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierMay 3, 2012
Oasis also takes aim at the bottled-water industry, entertainingly calling in psychologists to break down our fears of what is - or isn't - contaminating what we drink. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfMay 1, 2012
Still, the problem that often fells these documentaries - humorlessness - has been licked: Jack Black makes an exuberant cameo pitching recycled toilet water (his fake brand is called Porcelain Springs). Sound gross? Open wide, because it's on the menu for all of us. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubSam AdamsMay 2, 2012
It's true that Americans contribute disproportionately to the problem, but catering to the idea that we're separate from the rest of the world isn't part of the solution. Read full review
50
NPRMark JenkinsMay 8, 2012
The movie presents grim assessments from such experts as the Pacific Institute's Peter Gleick and professor and author Robert Glennon, yet it ends with a flurry of hopeful notes. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerApr 30, 2012
Both an informative bit of agitprop and an ultra slick and slightly self-satisfied bit of entertainment. Read full review
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