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  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • CNN Films
  • 1 h 48 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • CNN Films
  • 1 h 48 m

Summary Endangered African species like elephants, rhinos, and lions march closer to extinction each year. Their devastating decline is fueled by a global desire to consume and collect these majestic animals. Trophy investigates the powerhouse businesses of big game hunting, breeding, and wildlife conservation. Through the eyes of impassioned in...

Directed By: Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz

  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • CNN Films
  • 1 h 48 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • CNN Films
  • 1 h 48 m

Trophy

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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Summary Endangered African species like elephants, rhinos, and lions march closer to extinction each year. Their devastating decline is fueled by a global desire to consume and collect these majestic animals. Trophy investigates the powerhouse businesses of big game hunting, breeding, and wildlife conservation. Through the eyes of impassioned in...

Directed By: Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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100
Sep 8, 2017
Trophy strives to be kind and fair. But it is unmerciful in its exploration of the hunting business. Like a ruthless lawyer, it loves poking holes in arguments that appear rock-solid.
By Matt Zoller Seitz FULL REVIEW
90
Sep 14, 2017
With lines drawn along politics, class, race and economics, the strange-bedfellows issue of top-dollar killing and queasy conservation is one that Trophy...lays bare with gruesome, grim exactitude.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
83
Jan 25, 2017
Schwarz is determined to give us the full view of this issue, and it’s much appreciated.
By Dan Mecca FULL REVIEW
80
Jan 25, 2017
Some issues, Trophy powerfully conveys, are bigger and broader than they initially appear.
By Anthony Kaufman FULL REVIEW
75
Jan 27, 2017
The doc does an admirable job of giving pretty much equal screen time to hunters, conservationists, and other experts on all sides of the argument, even though it becomes pretty clear early on where the directors stand as far as their personal feelings on the subject are concerned.
By Oktay Ege Kozak FULL REVIEW
67
Sep 20, 2017
Trophy instead holds its subject right up to the light, like a diamond, so that all facets can be seen. It may not rouse the public to action, but it will give us something to ponder.
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60
Jan 25, 2017
Saving endangered animals is not a matter of sentimentality and lifting one up above another. It involves facing hard facts and brokering some compromises, and Trophy makes us fully aware of this.
By Dan Callahan FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Candescent Films, Chicago Media Project, Pulse Films, Reel Peak Films
Release Date Sep 8, 2017
Duration 1 h 48 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline Save the species, at what cost?
Website http://trophythefilm.com/
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Awards

CPH:DOX
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
News & Documentary Emmy Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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