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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for Salt Lake Tribune (1,927) on 17 Aug 2016

Herzog ultimately sounds optimistic about humanity's hyperlinked future, even as he highlights the many dangers on the road ahead…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 17 Aug 2016

The internet is an elusive quarry. It’s a marvel and a menace, a banal fact of life and a force for incalculable change…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 16 Aug 2016

Builds a perspective on internet usage, power, and possibility that educates and horrifies, playing into the director's filmmaking interests…

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By Zach Middleton (16) for Willamette Week (516) on 16 Aug 2016

Herzog films aren't really about criticism, though…

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By Aaron Hillis (362) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Aug 2016

Herzog smartly takes a broad, bird's-eye perspective of our early techno-evolution…

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By Sven Birkerts (1) for The New Republic (897) on 16 Aug 2016

If only Herzog could give this idea of full embeddedness the attention it very badly needs…

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By Glenn Dunks (375) for Film Experience (395) on 15 Aug 2016

[The film] comes off at once as both too little and too much with Herzog somewhat adrift, surrounded by a sea of overwrought zeal…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Aug 2016

It routinely alternating between episodes that contrast exhilaration with exploitation and damnation…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 11 Aug 2016

For many, Lo and Behold will be an interesting history lesson and look into the future of the Internet, including the colonization of Mars…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 10 Aug 2016

Herzog regards the online world with a mixture of wonder, humour and horror, observing that the ingenuity of people to build machines is outdone…

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By Kate Taylor (347) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 10 Aug 2016

As Herzog spirals from the achievements and dangers of the Net to topics such as communication with space colonies or the likelihood that solar…

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By Michael Atkinson (678) for In These Times (58) on 09 Aug 2016

[Herzog's] new film, Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, is a new order of business, an awed tour of human life shaped by the internet,…

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By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 09 Aug 2016

It's entertaining but not exactly illuminating -- the sort of essay film that's best watched with knowledgeable friends who can reframe its…

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By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 04 Aug 2016

Lo and Behold is everything the film promises to be, entertaining, informative, insightful, and peppered with Herzog's distinctive voice…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 18 Jul 2016

Herzog asks if one and all if they think “the Internet dreams of itself”…

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By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 15 Jul 2016

Werner Herzog is always in search of the obsessed oddball, either a German-American inspired to become a pilot after seeing allied bombers…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 26 Apr 2016

Less a disciplined documentary than a free-form essay film about connectivity, less a comprehensive history or analysis than a casual exploration…

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By Dmitry Samarov (14) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Apr 2016

The film explores the horrors and the wonders of our current way of life…

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By Alonso Díaz De La Vega (67) for El Universal (183) on 05 Apr 2016

Herzog contemplates a world were the internet becomes self aware and questions humans relation to it. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Josh Cabrita (87) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 04 Feb 2016

Herzog is more concerned with the feelings and impact of the digital age, the insight provided by conversations…

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