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Generally favorable reviews- based on 44 Ratings

  • Summary: Darwin's Nightmare is a tale about humans between the North and South, about globilization and about fish. (Cellulois Dreams)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. 100
    But for all its bleakness, Nightmare is a film that demands to be seen. In unflinching terms, it captures the hellish existence endured by the many so that the few may wallow in privilege.
  2. 80
    Among the most depressing films ever made...It's a stomach-turning tale of globalization at its very worst, though what any of this has to do with Darwin is unclear to me.
  3. An uncompromising portrait of how global capitalism can exploit an area's resources to the point of near annihilation.
  4. Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    80
    Far more than mere fish tale, Sauper's dark, devastating documentary profiles a socio-ecological nightmare with unimaginable consequences, and it's one of the best films about the ugly reality of the global marketplace.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 21
  2. Negative: 5 out of 21
  1. PatM.
    10
    I've watched a lot of documentaries - and this is one of the best I've seen. The unobtrusiveness of the interviewer adds to the hoesty and impact of the film. I did not know anything about what had happened to Lake Victoria - so when I first started watching it I was kind of confused - as I watched I started to realize what was happening there - and I felt so sad and angry, so I can only imagine how sad and angry the people there must feel. I Expand
  2. Jason
    8
    The insights to negative aspects of globalization, unbalanced income distribution, and its social consequences are there, but the filmmaker never really ties the movie in with the relevance of the title of the documentary. Expand
  3. LeeH.
    7
    it takes a while for this movie to focus- but when it does it's powerful. The villain is not so much global capitalism as it is us humans. How people can take a wondrous natural resource like Lake Victoria and change it to a hell hole. But as a documentary, the powerful parts are drowned out by the tedious, boring, and boring parts. Expand
  4. DarrenB.
    2
    Visit the country talk to the people......get the facts straight.

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