| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

It advances important and laudable ideas, but in a cliched, gimmicky way.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 2, 2010

It doesn't sound like fun, and it isn't fun to watch.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 2, 2010

Amiable enough, though it resembles a marketing tool for Beavan's book about his project.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 2, 2010

An intriguing documentary offering trial and experiment.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2010

No Impact Man is certain to raise questions among viewers - questions about the Beavans, questions about ourselves, questions about degrees of sustainability. And asking questions is what it's all about, isn't it?

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2009

No Impact Man is a very confused documentary that somehow puts its confusion to good use.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 1, 2009

This poignant, provocative documentary reduces the green movement to human scale -- and magnifies the size of mountain it's trying to climb.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 30, 2009

A strange yet riveting portrait of a marriage enduring a year spent making as little environmental impact as possible.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 24, 2009

Like reality 온라인카지노추천, there are moments of drama that have an aura of awkward self-consciousness about them and incidents that feel, if not staged, at the very least orchestrated, amped up. But you have to hand it to Beavan and Conlin.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 24, 2009

It may not be the greatest of cinematic exercises, and it often feels contrived, but this documentary somehow is enlightening, ridiculous, foreboding and funny at the same time.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 18, 2009

It all seems like a stunt, especially since Beaven has also written a just-published book about his experiences, but he and Conlin are an engaging pair who don't let zealotry get in the way of humor.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 18, 2009

You may find Colin Beavan unbearably smug, but at the heart of his mission lies an inconvenient truth: Our consumable, disposable, unsustainable culture is destroying the planet, and there's no way to change that without making sacrifices.

| Sep 17, 2009

Unsparingly exposes the confused power dynamics of a certain kind of modern middle-class marriage.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 11, 2009

Finally an environmental advocacy film for those of us who have the best of intentions but a weakness for Peet's espressos, takeout dinners and an occasional Marc Jacobs sale, to say nothing of a dependence on toilet paper...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 10, 2009

The film, like Beavan himself, leaves an unholy mess of contradictions in its wake, but most productively, a great deal of those contradictions are our own.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 10, 2009

The family has its struggles, certainly, but even more than a statement about the environment, No Impact Man offers a thoughtful narrative on the compromises of marriage and how this particular couple found a way to meet in the middle.

| Sep 9, 2009

How much can we possibly glean from a guy whose idealism can be measured with a calendar?

| Sep 8, 2009

An enviro-doc that doesn't soft-pedal the fact that the calculated, consciousness-raising media event it chronicles is a conceptual stunt, No Impact Man manages to present its New York do-gooder couple as both likably idealistic and inevitably conf

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 8, 2009

No Impact Man -- the film and the book -- could well end up instruction manuals.

| Sep 7, 2009