The 11th Hour
Warner Independent Pictures (WIP) | Release Date: August 17, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
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Generally favorable reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
20
Mixed:
9
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
Considerably less slick than "An Inconvenient Truth," and no less urgent. Read full review
88
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
The one film to see on this most crucial subject. Read full review
88
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
The word bears repeating, so everyone from Andrew Weil to Stephen Hawking to Mikhail Gorbachev is here to speak the still-inconvenient truth. The filmmaking, however, is far more relentless than in that Oscar-winning Al Gore slide show. Read full review
80
L.A. WeeklyJudith Lewis
Ultimately a triumph of redemptive ideas that DiCaprio ­-- God bless his celebrity -- may finally succeed in transporting from the environmental fringe to the mainstream moviegoing audience. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust
Thankfully for audiences, 11th Hour is not without hope. The filmmakers save the most exhilarating portion for last when they ask what's being done about the problems. Read full review
80
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
An unnerving, surprisingly affecting documentary about our environmental calamity, is such essential viewing. Read full review
75
PremiereAaron Hillis
As The 11th Hour's message of Profound Importance warrants a four-star rating, the film itself does not. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
It isn’t much of a movie (unless your aesthetic was formed in high-school science class), but it will be hugely informative to aliens who land on this planet in a thousand years and wonder why there’s no welcoming committee. Read full review
70
VarietyJustin Chang
Presents the viewer with reams of depressing data, loads of hand-wringing about the woeful state of humanity and, finally, some altogether fascinating ideas about how to go about solving the climate crisis. Read full review
70
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
Arguably a more important movie, which more clearly lays out what must be done to save the world, and how we can begin. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
An impassioned ecology-themed documentary that ultimately is more rewarding for informational than cinematic reasons. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Though the filmmaking isn't everything it might have been (the opening montage is especially clumsy), their argument is compelling, absorbing, and urgent. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
This activist documentary -- alternately impassioned, despairing, edifying, and hectoring about all the ways humans are screwing up the earth in a death rattle of hubris -- shouts, People, do something! In contrast, "An Inconvenient Truth" feels positively hushed. Read full review
67
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
As much a call to action as a documentary, it's a compelling and sobering lesson in the devastating effect of human industry on the planet. But a lesson nonetheless. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
While it's a well-constructed doc, full of relevant information and geared toward those people who still might be fence-sitters on the subject, there's something missing from The 11th Hour's lengthy procession of talking heads: a sense of maddened outrage. Read full review
63
USA TodayScott Bowles
The 11th Hour is a bit like "An Inconvenient Truth" at Woodstock: a little spacey, a little preoccupied with self-love and prone to the occasional freakout. Read full review
63
New York PostLou Lumenick
Perhaps the most sobering statistic in The 11th Hour: Some 50,000 species a year are disappearing. Someday, it might be humans. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
If you get through the first hour without slitting your throat, the cautiously optimistic last third offers some intriguing options. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
Like any good religious sermon, it follows its scary vision of hell with a possibility of last-minute redemption. Read full review
63
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
In the end, your reaction to "Hour" may depend on your feelings about humanity's collective common sense. Read full review
60
Washington PostNelson Pressley
The picture almost beats its theme to death -- the first hour is enough -- but the imaginative designers dreaming up a cleaner future end this Cassandra cry on an upbeat note. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
If it gets people thinking about which light bulbs they buy and their current gas mileage and such, then it's good to have it in the world. It is, however, a panicky blur as documentaries go. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
This movie, for all its noble intentions, is a bore. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleJoe Garofoli
There's some serious food for thought here. Read full review
50
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
Stripped of texture, even the sharpest comments come off as bromides. Read full review
50
Portland OregonianMarc Mohan
Well-intentioned but overblown environmental agitprop. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
Feels more like a lecture you've already heard than a galvanizing call to action. Read full review
40
Village VoiceMike D'Angelo
A cautionary eco-doc so earnest and moth-eaten it should properly be seen on filmstrip during fourth-period social studies. Read full review
40
EmpireHelen O'Hara
Too scattershot to land any effective punches. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubTasha Robinson
The 11th Hour is slick and passionate, but neither persuasive nor helpful; it's a headache of a film directed like an Errol Morris project, but with half the substance. It's clearly preaching to the choir, but even they may find it off-key. Read full review
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