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69
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What Goes Up
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Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
91
Hurt Locker, The
89
Goodbye Solo
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Tulpan
87
Gomorrah
86
Seraphine
84
Summer Hours
83
U2 3D
83
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83
Tyson
82
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
82
Sugar
82
Hunger
82
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
81
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81
Beaches of Agnes, The
80
Food, Inc.
80
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78
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77
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77
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75
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74
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74
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74
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74
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74
Lemon Tree
71
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70
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70
Tony Manero
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End of the Line, The
69
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69
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67
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Adoration
66
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65
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65
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64
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64
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63
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63
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63
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63
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63
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62
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62
Not Forgotten
61
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60
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59
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58
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58
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57
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57
Merry Gentleman, The
57
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56
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56
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55
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54
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54
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54
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52
Quiet Chaos
50
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48
Alien Trespass
45
Whatever Works
42
Little Ashes
42
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40
Limits of Control, The
40
Paris 36
38
Gigantic
36
Life is Hot in Cracktown
35
New York
28
Big Shot-Caller, The
28
Surveillance
22
What Goes Up
18
Downloading Nancy
16
I Hate Valentine's Day
xx
Call of the Wild
xx
Home
xx
Offshore
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March of the Penguins
Warner Independent Pictures
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Morgan Freeman (narrator)
This documentary chronicles one year in the life of an emperor penguin flock.
| GENRE(S): |
Documentary
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Foreign
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Michel Fessler
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Luc Jacquet
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 29, 2005
Theatrical: June 24, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
85 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
France |
Original title "La Marche de l'empereur"
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100
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
An astonishing documentary.
100
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
The movie pays tribute to sexual equality and to each gender's agility and strength of character.
100
The New Yorker
David Denby
A perfect family movie, a perfect date movie, and one of the most eye-ravishing documentaries ever made.
91
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
The film that results from Jacquet's application is gorgeous and even inspiring, a tale of loyalty hard-tested and hard-earned, a sumptuous travelogue, and a reminder that some of the critters with whom we share the planet are, in ways, as complex in their feelings as any human being.
90
Slate
David Edelstein
Remarkable.
90
Newsweek
David Ansen
Jacquet's movie is as visually ravishing as "Winged Migration," and more gripping.
90
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
The glacially beautiful new documentary March Of The Penguins confirms that no computer-animated or hand-drawn penguin could ever match the curious majesty of the genuine article.
90
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Thrilling documentary.
90
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
As uplifting as anything you will find in theaters.
90
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
There's more drama, and more heartbreak, in March of the Penguins than in most movies that are actually scripted to tug at our feelings.
89
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
Jacquet's penguins are as absorbing and incredible as any man-made phantasmagoria you'll find in the multiplex this summer, and it's all real.
88
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
The best action movie of the month contains chase scenes, fights, a love story, exotic locations - well, one exotic locale, snow-blasted Antarctica - and a battle for survival against long odds amid brutal conditions.
88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It's poignant to watch the chicks in their youth, fed by their parents, playing with their chums, the sun climbing higher every day, little suspecting what they're in for.
88
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A remarkable, eye-popping nature documentary.
88
USA Today
Claudia Puig
A cinematic experience that is dazzlingly different from anything currently in theaters, March of the Penguins captivates with its straightforward but powerful story of dogged determination, survival against harsh odds and sacrifice.
83
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Luc Jacquet's exquisitely shot eye-of-God study of a year in the lives of these distinctive birds is a nature film built with a feel for the epic and a love of operatic narrative.
80
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
This sentimental but riveting film has no qualms about playing on our emotions.
80
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Watch them march to the very extremes of extremis, though, and it's easy to feel awe.
80
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
A nature documentary that captures the ferocity and heroism of nature.
80
Film Threat
Jeremy Mathews
The film goes beyond a nature movie with excellent photography and the determination of the animals it documents.
80
Dallas Observer
Melissa Levine
Astonishing if imperfect nature documentary.
80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
A delightful, wholesome experience for the family.
80
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
It doesn't take a screenwriter, for example, to point out the uncanny fact that, when two parent penguins perform a neck-curving pas de deux above their tiny chick, they resemble nothing so much as a perfect heart.
75
Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt
Mostly it's an incredible tale of ritual and perseverance.
75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Concise and intriguing.
75
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Michael Moore might want to look into this before more animal docs steal his thunder.
75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
The director's tenacity has resulted in a breathtaking as well as heartbreaking adventure of life and death.
75
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Touching and brisk.
75
Premiere
Peter Debruge
If anything, it's the degree to which the animals differ from us that makes March of the Penguins so fascinating.
75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
When it comes to cute, this baby is off the charts.
70
Variety
Joe Leydon
Sometimes harrowing, sometimes hokey, sometimes heartwarming nature documentary.
70
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Some of the eggs fail to hatch and some of the chicks die, and the parents' cries are painful to hear, though what they're really crying for is the future of their species.
70
Time
Richard Schickel
It's a gentle film about somewhat alien beings, who entertain us by creating instead of destroying.
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
Parents of young children should be warned: Here's a family-values film that won't be much fun for the whole family.
63
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Does what all good National Geographic documentaries do: it informs and entertains while providing interesting wildlife footage. Unfortunately, it's not cinematic.
60
Empire
Helen O'Hara
It's a missed opportunity to make a great documentary, but still decent family entertainment, with awe-inspiring Antarctic scenery and some very cute stars.
60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The penguins' matter-of-fact victory over some of the Earth's most punishing conditions is astonishing enough without the epic airs.
50
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
The Central Park Zoo is cheaper, you can walk away from the penguins after 10 minutes, and it has snow monkeys and beer.
50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
As a zoological spectacle the movie is riveting. But the narration tries to make us think of these adorable animals as if they saw the world in human terms.
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