This is a documentary that will change the way you think about seafood and give you the power of knowledge to make a change.

| May 17, 2010

As the final credits roll you feel like you've been on an emotional rollercoaster -- the same as you might if you'd just watched a moderately successful Hollywood disaster movie.

| May 14, 2010

Revelations about the tonnes of wasted sealife caught and discarded annually and the destructive effects of practices such as bottom-trawling, are head-spinning in their immensity.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 14, 2010

There are an irritating number of fish and ocean montages with plaintive music which makes the film longer than it need be, but there's no denying the impact of its content.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 12, 2010

It's compelling viewing, and outlines the problem -- and the solution -- in minute detail.

| May 12, 2010

Forget 2012. 2012. According to The End of the Line, the year right-minded folk should be dreading is 2048.

| May 6, 2010

If the tone is occasionally off-putting, the message -- at least, the facts about the fish -- is harder to shrug off.

| Aug 14, 2009

Informative and alarming, if a little dry in its singular message and barrage of statistics.

Full Review | Aug 13, 2009

A gorgeously filmed cautionary tale about how industrial fishing is depriving little guys of their livelihood and depleting the once-vast supply.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 7, 2009

This movie wants to cover every base without thinking very deeply about them. So while a lot of ground is covered in 80 brisk minutes, the information presented is only abstractly useful.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 23, 2009

Plenty of fish in the sea? Time to learn a new adage.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 17, 2009

It's hard not to feel that the vital information in The End of the Line may have been more effectively relayed by Clover's original book or by a movie whose methods were less pedantic and pedestrian.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 17, 2009

Another day, another film about environmental collapse.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 17, 2009

The End of the Line documents what threatens to become an irreversible decline in aquatic populations within 40 years.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 16, 2009

As if we didn't already have enough signs of the impending apocalypse with which to contend.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 13, 2009

..."Food, Inc." for fish.

| Original Score: B | Jul 6, 2009

The End of the Line, an eco-mentary that warns against overfishing, baits its hook with alarmist rhetoric and aversion therapy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 2, 2009

The exercise feels mass-produced and makes you think some books shouldn't be adapted unless given a new and fervent second wind.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 22, 2009

An illuminating, provocative and important wake-up call for everyone young and old.

| Original Score: 8.0/10 | Jun 20, 2009

Except for lush underwater shots, the movie is dry and preachy. And it would not have hurt to give the other side a chance to respond.

| Jun 19, 2009