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75Along the way, a raft of experts are featured -- including Times-Picayune outdoor editor Bob Marshall -- speaking bluntly about the cozy relationship between politicians and the oil industry.
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60Though the Tickells' unabashedly partial, first-person approach is a liability, they present so much damning evidence that their case is - one hopes - impossible to ignore.
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60The film's most upsetting scenes are its interviews with residents whose livelihood has been decimated and whose health has been compromised.
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Nov 29, 201160It's more a summarizing project than an act of investigative journalism or a revelatory indictment.
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60The film's scope is staggering, including its detailed outlining of BP's origins and fingerprints across decades of unrest in Iran.
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70A gloomy but perhaps realistic depiction of the forces of corruption and deceit that produce environmental catastrophes.
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50Alternately gutsy and preachy, specific and scattered, the righteously angry pic risks alienating those who could be galvanized by its proof of Big Oil's corrupting omnipotence.
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Nov 28, 201170The Big Fix presents a compelling array of damning testimony from EPA officials, journalists, scientists and politicians as well as emotional scenes of distraught residents.
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38The Tickells' style is a predictable grab bag of interviews with outraged experts and journalists, TV news footage, and scenes in which the filmmakers (and, during one trip, fellow activists Peter Fonda and Amy Smart) make faux-daring journeys into the fray to bring back supposed realities that corporate America seeks to hide.