[An[ extraordinary Antarctica sojourn...

| Nov 10, 2023

An exceptionally beautiful and thoughtful documentary.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 4, 2022

A minor miracle of a movie, one that dares, even for an instant, to reach out and touch the face of god.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 7, 2019

Some 온라인카지노추천 viewers may tune in expecting more penguins; what they get instead is a portrait of people in search of the sublime.

| Mar 30, 2018

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 24, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 16, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 16, 2011

Damnably frustrating and fascinating, Herzog's questions deconstruct Earth's DNA in a scientific process going beyond statistics to ancestry or spirituality - an idea that we're witnesses and valets who are here and, sooner than we think, will be gone.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 25, 2010

Respect for the environment is not a moral issue for Herzog, but a common sense issue of survival. In the harsh environs of the polar regions, his point is made with crystalline clarity.

| Original Score: 8.9/10 | Jun 12, 2010

The footage is breathtaking. We also are privileged to watch seals feeding their young, but the revelations about penguin 'prostitutes' are perhaps the film's most extraordinary. Gay penguins? Insane penguins?

| Sep 10, 2009

Caustically enchanting

| Aug 26, 2009

...May not have the shock and drive of Grizzly Man, but it's a poignant and even haunting work nonetheless

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2009

This documentary about life in and around a vast scientific research centre in Antarctica. None of these meetings, however, is as interesting as the interspersed footage of the pole's natural wonders.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 28, 2009

His best film for years.

| Apr 28, 2009

This Oscar-nominated gem reveals far more than the traditional documentary by coming at the subject from an unexpected angle to reveal a myriad of unvarnished truths.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 25, 2009

Too loose and aimless to sit with Herzog's best, Encounters drifts along on its filmmaker's frostbitten humour and his ever-searching eye for weirdness and wonder.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 25, 2009

Herzog is baffled, amused and fascinated by them all, exults in their palpable strangeness, draws us deep into their unique world and, via Henry Kaiser's extraordinary underwater photography, what looms often unnervingly beneath it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 25, 2009

Seemingly off-hand, cumulatively imposing, utterly masterful.

| Original Score: 5/6 | Apr 24, 2009

As a nature doc alone, Encounters at the End of the World would stand as one of the year's best. But it is the people who choose to live and work at the very ends of the Earth that are Herzog's real subject.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 24, 2009

It's a thoroughly intelligent, worthwhile and tremendous-looking film. But where is the dark spark of Herzog magic?

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 24, 2009