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70 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
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  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    100
    A rapturous and enlightening look at the history of the environmental movement in America.
  2. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    83
    Devotees of the "Whole Earth Catalogue" may regard this film as a nostalgia trip, but it's much more comprehensive, more forward-looking than that.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Justin Chang
    80
    A moving, elegiac, deeply contemplative work that leaves the viewer not with a save-the-world checklist, but rather a spirit of hopeful reflection.
  4. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    78
    An informative and nonpolemic look at the birth of the modern environmental movement and its various offshoots and key players.
  5. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    75
    The rare ecological documentary that doesn't nag us to run out of the movie theater and change the world.
  6. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    75
    Nearly a quarter of the way through Earth Days, the movie seems on-track to being just another tongue-clucking "Isn't it a pity" doc, painted in broad strokes.
  7. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Melissa Anderson
    70
    There's great archival footage.
  8. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    70
    There is a sense of sadness around Earth Days, a sense that opportunities were not capitalized on, that not enough was done.
  9. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    70
    Feels like a prolonged campfire conversation, filled with weathered, measured talk about holistic thinking and finding a new perspective.
  10. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Reviewed by: Joe Williams
    63
    There's little that's new in the retelling, except mellowed musings on Environmentalism 2.0.
  11. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Stephen Farber
    60
    Documentaries are a hard sell these days, and despite the timely, pertinent subject, the film simply doesn't have enough entertainment value to draw an audience to the multiplex.
  12. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Joe Neumaier
    60
    Even with all the inconvenient truths exposed, Stone's film is still, sadly, inescapably crucial.
  13. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    50
    A sedate chronicle of the highs and lows of the environmental movement, Earth Days is less a rousing call to action than a bittersweet stroll down memory lane.
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