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By Tara Brady (805) for Irish Times (1,391) on 25 Jul 2013

Blackfish marries biography, activism and psycho thriller into a pleasing cinematic shape, starting with a single whale and the trainers who…

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By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 25 Jul 2013

Cruelty begets cruelty and whales don't belong in the circus…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 25 Jul 2013

It’s upsetting and scary to watch the footage of orca attacks collected in Blackfish, a damning documentary about the treatment of the animals…

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By Bill Stamets (145) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 25 Jul 2013

Dispiriting as Blackfish is at times, it offers beautiful advocacy for orca freedom…

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By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 24 Jul 2013

It is never less than gripping, and devastatingly undermines the notion of performing whales as wholesome family entertainment…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 24 Jul 2013

It's hard to imagine anyone coming out of this movie and not swearing off the next vacation trip to Orlando, San Antonio or San Diego…

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By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 24 Jul 2013

It's a strong piece of video journalism in which images and the interviews deliver the information, and we reach our own conclusions…

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By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 24 Jul 2013

Unfortunately, this feels like a ten-minute news segment blown up to theatrical proportions…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 24 Jul 2013

As horribly gripping as a serial-killer thriller, though the real villain is not the ostensible culprit, but its human captors…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 24 Jul 2013

An acclaimed and chastening documentary about what happens to human beings - injury, mutilation, death - when they pen orcas in sea parks…

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By Matt Pais (1,519) for RedEye (906) on 24 Jul 2013

To analyze real-life tragedy we must understand it so we can prevent it, Cowperthwaite justly argues…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 24 Jul 2013

Behavioural experts describe the orca brain's advanced capacity for emotion, while former trainers reveal the stories spun by SeaWorld to convince…

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By Matthew Turner (2,508) for ViewLondon (2,339) on 24 Jul 2013

Superbly directed, powerfully emotional documentary that presents a convincing case against keeping orca whales in captivity and is liable…

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By Rob Daniel (202) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 24 Jul 2013

Avoiding sensationalism it unearths the events in Tilikum's life with a journalistic rigour, expanding the story wider to reveal the dangers…

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By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Film4 (1,522) on 24 Jul 2013

It all adds up to a sympathetic profile of a serial killer's traumatic history, and a compelling picture of humanity's great inhumanity towards…

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By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 24 Jul 2013

For the most part, Cowperthwaite keeps the preachiness in check, letting the scientists, former SeaWorld trainers and other witnesses tell…

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By Tirdad Derakhshani (358) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 24 Jul 2013

Very few of us would like to think about the physical and emotional toll that life in captivity takes on these magnificent creatures…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 24 Jul 2013

The film may be depressing. But even with a terrible, watery musical score, it's also good…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue.com (1,236) on 21 Jul 2013

might cause moviegoers to change their perspective on those wholesome Sea World marine shows…

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By David Parkinson (764) for Empire (3,446) on 21 Jul 2013

Impassioned and disturbing, this documentary matches The Cove for marrying cool intellect with real fire…

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