The Big Fix
Green Planet Productions | Release Date: December 2, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
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Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
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3
Mixed:
5
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottFeb 14, 2012
Along the way, a raft of experts are featured -- including Times-Picayune outdoor editor Bob Marshall -- speaking bluntly about the cozy relationship between politicians and the oil industry. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttNov 28, 2011
A gloomy but perhaps realistic depiction of the forces of corruption and deceit that produce environmental catastrophes. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesMindy FarabeeNov 28, 2011
The Big Fix presents a compelling array of damning testimony from EPA officials, journalists, scientists and politicians as well as emotional scenes of distraught residents. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanDec 1, 2011
Though the Tickells' unabashedly partial, first-person approach is a liability, they present so much damning evidence that their case is - one hopes - impossible to ignore. Read full review
60
The New York TimesStephen HoldenDec 1, 2011
The film's most upsetting scenes are its interviews with residents whose livelihood has been decimated and whose health has been compromised. Read full review
60
Time OutAndrew SchenkerNov 29, 2011
It's more a summarizing project than an act of investigative journalism or a revelatory indictment. Read full review
60
Village VoiceErnest HardyNov 29, 2011
The film's scope is staggering, including its detailed outlining of BP's origins and fingerprints across decades of unrest in Iran. Read full review
50
VarietyRob NelsonNov 28, 2011
Alternately gutsy and preachy, specific and scattered, the righteously angry pic risks alienating those who could be galvanized by its proof of Big Oil's corrupting omnipotence. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineNick SchagerNov 28, 2011
The Tickells' style is a predictable grab bag of interviews with outraged experts and journalists, TV news footage, and scenes in which the filmmakers (and, during one trip, fellow activists Peter Fonda and Amy Smart) make faux-daring journeys into the fray to bring back supposed realities that corporate America seeks to hide. Read full review
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