Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Stamets |
7 |
If you can't decide between Cars or The Inconvenient Truth, go see Who Killed the Electric Car? |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington |
7 |
...often fascinating... |
E!
|
10 |
Though it's hard not to be partial, Paine largely succeeds in presenting the cold hard facts--and entertains and educates at the same time. |
filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin |
4 |
...where An Inconvenient Truth has the information and a bewilderingly-charming Al Gore to supply reasons, Who Killed the Electric Car? has no focus or reason apart from its history lesson. |
New York Post
V. A. Musetto |
7 |
If $3-a-gallon gasoline doesn't make you hate the big oil companies, the shock ing revelations in Chris Paine's thought-provoking documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? will. |
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh |
6 |
Impassioned, unwieldy and padded with celebrity interviews, Paine's documentary ends on a surprisingly upbeat note... |
Reel
Pam Grady |
7 |
A documentary about a car may not sound like the most scintillating movie on the planet, but Paine is a skillful storyteller who spins his yarn with surprising humor. |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman |
9 |
...makes you angry, and also sad, to live in a country where innovation could be contrived into an enemy. |
New York Times
Manohla Dargis |
9 |
A murder mystery, a call to arms and an effective inducement to rage, Who Killed the Electric Car? is the latest and one of the more successful additions to the growing ranks of issue-oriented documentaries. |
Los Angeles Times
Michael Wilmington |
8 |
...an often fascinating documentary. |
People
Leah Rozen |
6 |
...fascinating... |
LA Weekly
Judith Lewis |
7 |
...a laudably complicated, if emotional and a little comic-book goofy, story of how a confluence of forces -- industry skepticism, trained-seal lobbyists and, last but not least, consumer reluctance -- undermined the future of a quiet little bean of mobile metal that the anointed few who could afford to lease it passionately adored. |
Onion AV Club
Nathan Rabin |
7 |
...will probably still end up preaching largely to the converted, but it's hard to deny the passion and commitment of any film that can generate real pathos out of footage of cars being destroyed. |
Maxim
Pete Hammond |
6 |
Like Al Gore's surprise hit, An Inconvenient Truth, this film takes a serious environmental concern and turns it into important--and oddly entertaining--cinema. |
Premiere
Ethan Alter |
7 |
...may lack the raw anger of [Michael] Moore's work, but it's a more focused documentary that doesn't get hijacked by any on-camera grandstanding. |
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