Time to Choose
Abramorama | Release Date: June 3, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
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11
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3
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisJun 9, 2016
The aerial cinematography is breathtaking: We can feel the fragility of the planet, but also its power to heal — if only we give it a chance. Read full review
90
The New York TimesStephen HoldenJun 2, 2016
Charles Ferguson’s latest documentary, Time to Choose, is a sobering polemic about global warming that balances familiar predictions of planetary doom with a survey of innovations in renewable energy technology that hold out some hope for the future. Read full review
88
Boston GlobePeter KeoughJun 2, 2016
Efficient, cogently argued, and visually compelling documentary. Read full review
83
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezJun 9, 2016
Arguably the most persuasive and compelling of Ferguson’s films to date, Time To Choose is an imperative, essential essay on our climate change crisis, and if it ever feels didactic, it’s counterpointed by its very real and very human nature. Read full review
83
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerJun 3, 2016
What separates Charles Ferguson’s Time to Choose from the many other documentaries about climate change is that, after dutifully presenting many of the usual horrifying climate statistics, it lays out a series of possible solutions, already available, to the crisis. Read full review
80
VarietyOwen GleibermanJun 3, 2016
Time to Choose may come off, at moments, like the “Koyaanisqatsi” of environmental devastation, but it is also a dreadfully beautiful achievement. It shows us what the building blocks of climate change look like. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranJun 2, 2016
Most of Time To Choose is concerned with demonstrating that, as more than one speaker says, every crisis is an opportunity. That for every human action that increases global warming there are already workable alternatives in place just waiting to be embraced by a wider constituency. Read full review
75
The Seattle TimesTom KeoghJun 9, 2016
Time to Choose tells us all is not lost — yet. But the hour is late. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoJun 3, 2016
The main reason that Time to Choose feels different and has value is that it actually offer solutions and hope. Read full review
75
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanJun 2, 2016
The climate change documentary A Time to Choose takes what often seems like an oblique approach to the subject of global warming. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayJun 1, 2016
It isn’t a brilliant piece of filmmaking or even a revelatory work of journalism. But Time To Choose may provoke actual action, if only because it doesn’t conclude that we’re doomed. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberJun 2, 2016
Ferguson certainly has some strong, even encouraging points to make. And he has brought impressive filmmaking skills to his cinematic essay. Still, one wishes that he had presented his thesis with a little more energy and a little less didacticism. Read full review
58
TheWrapSam AdamsJun 3, 2016
No matter where Ferguson goes, he finds a way to sit someone in a chair and point a camera at them, resulting in a movie whose stultifying dullness works against the urgency of its message. Read full review
50
Village VoiceROBYN BAHRJun 1, 2016
If An Inconvenient Truth served to scare us, then Time to Choose offers hope, presenting what amounts to an hour-and-45-minute commercial for renewable technology that might inspire confidence in scientific progress even as it reminds us that it isn't cheap being green. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithJun 2, 2016
The climate-change documentary Time To Choose makes the disaster movie “The Day After Tomorrow” look like a model of judiciousness and restraint. Read full review
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