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By Gail H (23) on 13 Dec 2014

This is a visual feast that lends insight to the challenges, personal growth and sheer wackiness that is woven through life on The Ice…

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By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 12 Dec 2014

Way too much screen time is given over to folks describing what it's like to live in such a place, as opposed to, you know, actually living there…

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By Anders Wright (338) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 11 Dec 2014

The movie shows precisely what the title suggests: the changing seasons in that desolate place, and the folks who decide to endure them…

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By Gerald G (37) on 07 Dec 2014

I've seen it and I've been there. W/O 2010. The movie is great but it still doesn't compare to being there…

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By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 04 Dec 2014

Powell never achieves the absurdist, uncanny poetry of that scene in Herzog’s film where a “demented” penguin marches into oblivion,…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 04 Dec 2014

Yes, it features some of the most rapturous footage of calving glaciers and ice floes — alternately freezing and thawing — that you’re…

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By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 Dec 2014

Powell makes excellent use of time-lapse photography to capture such natural phenomena as a sea freezing over…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 02 Dec 2014

A fascinating glimpse into the lives, habits, and philosophies of men and women who work in Antarctica…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 01 Dec 2014

I've been waiting for a movie like this, and I can't believe no one has done this before: shown us life over a full year in the most remote…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 26 Nov 2014

Antarctica is successful because it operates on two complementary levels, the epic visuals whose grandeur can stagger you and the small-scale…

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By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 26 Nov 2014

[Antarctica: A Year On Ice] is not your usual travelogue, but a surprising exploration of the human soul and human needs…

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By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Nov 2014

Anthony Powell's vision as a filmmaker is frustratingly limited to an information-style presentation that doubles as an enthusiastic advert…

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By Mark R. Leeper (892) for Mark Leeper's Reviews (297) on 24 Nov 2014

The vistas of white and all the sights of the icecap make for an extraordinary and memorable film…

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By Ken W (184) on 09 Oct 2013

Brilliantly captures the experience of spending a year working in Antarctica, summer and winter, from a man who himself spent many years there…

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By Fiona G (14) on 08 Oct 2013

Unlike many documentaries of Antarctica that focus on the wildlife, this amazing movie gives an insight into the life of those hardy souls…

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