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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 15 Nov 2012

The photography is often beautiful (the blue glaciers sparkle in the sun like massive sapphires), but it's disturbing - and sure to convince…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 14 Nov 2012

Heart-stopping in its coverage of the brave and risky attempt by a scientist named James Balog and his team of researchers on the Extreme Ice…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 14 Nov 2012

As someone who admits to having harbored skepticism about climate change himself, two decades ago, Balog is trying to present an image-based…

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By Gerald Peary (163) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 13 Nov 2012

Horrific and even tearful: mighty glaciers eroding, collapsing before our eyes, sending melting ice and waters southward…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 10 Nov 2012

When you see this frightening footage with your eyes, well, a single picture is worth a thousand words and Chasing Ice tells volumes…

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By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 09 Nov 2012

Glaciers melt alarmingly fast in exciting story of obsessed pied piper with a camera traveling by boat, copter, and dogsled into the Arctic…

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By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 09 Nov 2012

Concerned citizens who also value glossy, high-end, high-minded docs will feel rewarded, if not a bit more frustrated by an epidemic of denial…

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By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 09 Nov 2012

The impact should be visceral and gut-wrenching; instead, it's cool and cerebral – after all, we're being lectured in a lecture hall…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 08 Nov 2012

although the film has some amazing imagery, the bulk of it is more about the obstacles facing Balog than the dire circumstances he is trying…

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By Linda Barnard (586) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 08 Nov 2012

Considering the gravity of the situation there is very little preaching in Chasing Ice…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 08 Nov 2012

This amazingly beautiful, and amazingly frightening, documentary captures the immediacy of what climate change is doing to the Arctic landscape…

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By Neil Genzlinger (512) for The New York Times (9,847) on 08 Nov 2012

The film doesn't just serve up Mr. Balog's amazing and undeniably convincing imagery…

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By Mark Jenkins (515) for NPR (1,713) on 08 Nov 2012

In Hollywood these days, such epic transformations are rendered with computers and called morphing…

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By Chuck Wilson (418) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Nov 2012

Still and live-action footage captures the ice sliding into the sea with exquisite grace, which makes it all the more wrenching…

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By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 04 Nov 2012

A documentary so stuffed with eye-soothing images one prays it can seduce a climate-change skeptic or two…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Variety (12,700) on 04 Nov 2012

Following the exhaustive efforts of photographer-scientist James Balog to capture irrefutable evidence of the world's glaciers in retreat,…

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By Thomas Hachard (4) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Nov 2012

If you need it, the documentary offers a devastating, and often beautifully shot, reality check…

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By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Nov 2012

If you need it, the doc offers a devastating, and often beautifully shot, reality check…

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By Craig Skinner (25) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 12 Oct 2012

Balog has created time-lapse images of the receding glaciers, providing a beautiful but terrifying example of the effects of climate change…

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