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Los Angeles Times
The before and after imagery of Balog's project speaks for itself, with the power and strange beauty of the evolving landscape strong evidence that something is indeed happening, now and fast. Full Review
Joe Neumaier
New York Daily News
This amazingly beautiful, and amazingly frightening, documentary captures the immediacy of what climate change is doing to the Arctic landscape. Full Review
John DeFore
The Hollywood Reporter
A documentary so stuffed with eye-soothing images one prays it can seduce a climate-change skeptic or two. Full Review
Justin Chang
Variety
Following the exhaustive efforts of photographer-scientist James Balog to capture irrefutable evidence of the world's glaciers in retreat, first-time helmer Jeff Orlowski's documentary supplies a heroic human-interest angle on global warming that's ultimately less remarkable than the grandeur of its arctic imagery. Full Review
Mark Jenkins
NPR
In Hollywood these days, such epic transformations are rendered with computers and called "morphing." Offering a lesson both to filmmakers and climate-change deniers, Chasing Ice demonstrates how much more powerful it is to capture the real thing. Full Review
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