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  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 23 m

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 both sides of wind energy development when the r...

  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 23 m

Windfall

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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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 both sides of wind energy development when the r...

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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90
Feb 6, 2012
Urgent, informative and artfully assembled documentary.
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80
Feb 6, 2012
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.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 6, 2012
Windfall left me disheartened. I thought wind energy was something I could believe in.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
63
Feb 6, 2012
Whatever the legitimate arguments Windfall makes against the industry it targets, Meredith's feuding becomes just as inaccessible as the windmills that incite it.
By Joseph Jon Lanthier FULL REVIEW
58
Feb 6, 2012
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.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 6, 2012
The argument is so tilted against windmills (sorry) that this comes perilously close to an advocacy video. But Israel deserves credit for delivering the bad news that wind power, like natural gas and nuclear, comes with its own array of social and environmental headaches.
By J.R. Jones FULL REVIEW
40
Feb 6, 2012
Given the film's inability to posit any significant objections - or, for that matter, alternatives - to the turbines, it all feels like so much petty sniping against progress.
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Production Company Cat Hollow Films, Double Wide Media
Release Date Feb 3, 2012
Duration 1 h 23 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://windfallthemovie.com/
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Awards

DOC NYC
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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