Chasing Ice
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8.0 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings

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  1. Tim-T
    Nov 28, 2012
    8
    There is no doubt this film is beautiful and powerful. It offers both irrefutable visual evidence of melting glaciers and a brief but impressive bio of National Geographic photographer James Balog. But the focus is blurred when, for example, we balance a global crisis with Balog's ailing knee. The film might have offered a single solution over a non-compliant-patient subplot. That said, it's still worth the price of admission for the photography alone.… Expand

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Metascore
75 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    Dec 5, 2012
    83
    When we finally see the time-lapse images his cameras took, they're awesome and terrifying - a meltdown out of a poetic horror film.
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  2. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Walter Addiego
    Nov 23, 2012
    50
    His personal efforts are praiseworthy, but if glacial melting is in fact the "canary in the climate coal mine" (his words), the movie might have given us a bit less of Balog and a bit more of the startling sequences he produced.
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  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mark Olsen
    Nov 23, 2012
    80
    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.
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