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It is a poem of oddness and beauty.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

The stunning images aren't enough for Herzog, though. He wants us to see how these quirky researchers, in their lust to explore, are acting out a drive as primitive as nature: the need to break away from the world in order to find it.Full Review

Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

Like many of Mr. Herzog's movies, fiction and nonfiction, Encounters at the End of the World itself has the quality of a dream: it's at once vivid and vague, easy to grasp and somehow beyond reach.Full Review

Manohla Dargis
The New York Times

Does Antarctica attract dreamers or create them? It's a thread that runs throughout the film.Full Review

Ty Burr
Boston Globe

Through Herzog's eyes it is a desolate, strangely beautiful frozen Edenish hell where the planet, having shaken out its pockets, lets the loners, fanatics and cosmologist-crackpots fall to bottom.Full Review

Carrie Rickey
Philadelphia Inquirer
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