Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
8 |
...has an agenda but has the cogent, reasoned rhetoric to support it. |
New York Post
Kyle Smith |
7 |
...one of the most frightening documentaries you'll ever see, or endure. |
Slant Magazine
Andrew Schenker |
4 |
...a quixotic bit of horseshit. |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
9 |
At times Countdown to Zero comes close to being nuclear-anxiety porn, yet it's the rare film that could trigger and unite the reflexes
of the left and the right. It makes
getting rid of nukes seem less like a ''cause'' than an imperative. |
New York Times
Jeanette Catsoulis |
7 |
This scarily convincing argument that the end, if not quite nigh, is at least foreseeable urges us to wake up and smell the highly enriched uranium. By the end, however, all most of us will want to do is duck and cover. |
Village Voice
Vadim Rizov |
5 |
...another well-intentioned but preaching-to-the-choir doc, and boring as well. Never trust a movie that ends with a moveon.org link. |
Onion AV Club
Noel Murray |
6 |
The movie is slickly shot and assembled, with all the requisite animations, recreations, file footage, and ominous pulsing music that make agit-prop docs go these days. But Walker’s preponderance of facts and figures don’t make her case as well as a few well-placed anecdotes, like the ones about how flocks of geese, a rising moon, and a malfunctioning computer chip all almost touched off nuclear strikes in the past. |
Variety
John Anderson |
8 |
...boasts... a convincing argument that the human race is on borrowed time. |
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