Windfall
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  • Summary: Wind power… It’s green... It’s good... It reduces our dependency on foreign oil. But does it? Or, is it merely a highly profitable financial scam for the many wind energy developers looking to erect industrial wind turbines in a town near you? Laura Israel’s documentary, Windfall, looks at boks at both sides of wind energy development when the residents of a rural upstate New York town consider going green. (First Run Features)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 6 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 10
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  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Andy Webster
    Feb 6, 2012
    90
    Urgent, informative and artfully assembled documentary.
  2. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    Feb 6, 2012
    80
    Ms. Israel's movie proves, once again, that the best nonfiction cinema possesses the same attributes as good fiction: Strong characters, conflict, story arc, visual style.
  3. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    Feb 6, 2012
    80
    It's a tantalizing case study that suggests ordinary people still have the power to steer a course between faceless bureaucracies and greedy capitalists, but only just - and only if they can find a way to overcome their differences and work together.
  4. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    Feb 6, 2012
    58
    Windfall is undeniably persuasive - and is likely advocating on the right side of the wind-farm issue - but the movie's case relies more on emotional appeals and frightening images of giant machines than on real, objective number-crunching.

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