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  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • GathrFilms
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • GathrFilms
  • 1 h 40 m

Summary Academy Award® winning documentary filmmaker Charles Ferguson explores the comprehensive scope of the climate change crisis and examines the power of solutions already available. Through interviews with world-renowned entrepreneurs, innovators, thought leaders and brave individuals living on the front lines of climate change, Ferguson ta...

Directed By: Charles Ferguson

Written By: Chad Beck, Charles Ferguson

  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • GathrFilms
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • GathrFilms
  • 1 h 40 m

Time to Choose

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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Summary Academy Award® winning documentary filmmaker Charles Ferguson explores the comprehensive scope of the climate change crisis and examines the power of solutions already available. Through interviews with world-renowned entrepreneurs, innovators, thought leaders and brave individuals living on the front lines of climate change, Ferguson ta...

Directed By: Charles Ferguson

Written By: Chad Beck, Charles Ferguson

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Oscar Isaac

Narrator

Peter Agnefjall

Self - CEO of IKEA

Tasso Azevedo

Self - Forestry and Climate Change Consultant and Social Entrepreneur

Neal Barnard

Self - Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D.C.

Jerry Brown

Self - Governor of California

Mike Brune

Self - Executive Director of the Sierra Club, Author, Coming Clean: Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal

Peter Calthorpe

Self - Architect and Urban Designer, Author, Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change

Steven Chu

Self - 12th U.S. Secretary of Energy 2009 - 2013

Lynn Crosby

Self

Oronto Douglas

Self - Human Rights and Environmental Lawyer in Nigeria

Sebastian Duma

Self

Christiana Figueres

Self - Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Wu Gang

Self - Chairman of the Goldwind Corporation

Jane Goodall

Self - Founder, Jane Goodall Institute

Maria Gunnoe

Self - Activist, 2009 Winner of Goldman Environmental Prize

Jennifer Hall-Massey

Self - Resident of Prenter, West Virginia

James Hansen

Self - Climate Scientist

Danny Kennedy

Self - Co-Founder of Sungevity

Jaime Lerner

Self - Architect and Urban Planner, Founder of the Instituto Jaime Lerner and chairman of Jaime Lerner Arquitetos Associados

Peter Lewis

Self - Director of African Studies, Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
75
73% Positive
11 Reviews
20% Mixed
3 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
75
73% Positive
11 Reviews
20% Mixed
3 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review

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100
Jun 9, 2016
The aerial cinematography is breathtaking: We can feel the fragility of the planet, but also its power to heal — if only we give it a chance.
By David Lewis FULL REVIEW
88
Jun 2, 2016
Efficient, cogently argued, and visually compelling documentary.
By Peter Keough FULL REVIEW
80
Jun 3, 2016
Time to Choose may come off, at moments, like the “Koyaanisqatsi” of environmental devastation, but it is also a dreadfully beautiful achievement. It shows us what the building blocks of climate change look like.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
75
Jun 9, 2016
Time to Choose tells us all is not lost — yet. But the hour is late.
By Tom Keogh FULL REVIEW
75
Jun 2, 2016
The climate change documentary A Time to Choose takes what often seems like an oblique approach to the subject of global warming.
By Michael O'Sullivan FULL REVIEW
58
Jun 3, 2016
No matter where Ferguson goes, he finds a way to sit someone in a chair and point a camera at them, resulting in a movie whose stultifying dullness works against the urgency of its message.
By Sam Adams FULL REVIEW
25
Jun 2, 2016
The climate-change documentary Time To Choose makes the disaster movie “The Day After Tomorrow” look like a model of judiciousness and restraint.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Representational Pictures
Release Date Jun 3, 2016
Duration 1 h 40 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.facebook.com/TimetoChoosefilm
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Awards

Cinema for Peace Awards
• 1 Nomination

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