If you're feeling nostalgic for a time when the environmental movement was something everyone embraced, Robert Stone's Earth Days is bound to comfort -- and alarm.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 10, 2009

Considering the environmental glass houses we've constructed around us, one comes away from Earth Days wondering if it's not past time for some bricks to be slung, metaphorical or otherwise.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 30, 2009

Honoring the heroes of the environmental movement is clearly appropriate, but getting mired in nostalgia is a dirty shame.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 29, 2009

Yes, the future still looks grim and whales are hunted here as they are in all such films, but Stone spends most of his time tracking something positive -- the birth of the environmental movement in the '60s and '70s.

| Original Score: B | Oct 23, 2009

Earth Days captures those years when through sheer relentlessness, activists broke through to the public and put the mounting disaster at its doorstep.

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

A surprisingly engaging ecodocumentary about the history of the American environmental movement from the Depression era up to the present.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 18, 2009

These people, including Whole Earth catalog editor Stewart Brand and 87-year-old former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, are smart and interesting folks who are worth listening to.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 21, 2009

A rich trove of news clips and interviews inform Robert Stone's fast-moving documentary about the movement to save the planet and the cultural forces that helped it along or held it back.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2009

Crusty eco-hippies spin random anecdotes about olden times in Earth Days, a turgid documentary on the environmental movement in the 1960s and '70s.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 14, 2009

At once regretful and optimistic, frustrated and proud. Mr. Stone has shown us the way; now all we need is the will.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2009

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 14, 2009

Once [director] Stone drops the generalities and starts getting specific, Earth Days improves considerably.

| Original Score: B | Aug 13, 2009

A rapturous and enlightening look at the history of the environmental movement in America.

| Original Score: A | Aug 12, 2009

Earth Days has a lot to say about the minor victories of the past. It's too bad that the film ends at the dawn of the 1980s -- all but ignoring the most important chapter of this ongoing saga.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 12, 2009

That Earth Days follows a simple routine in its construction does not detract from the beauty of its earnest design.

| Aug 12, 2009

There's great archival footage (those anti-pollution PSAs with Iron Eyes Cody from the '70s remain quite powerful).

| Aug 11, 2009

There's a bit too much of the self-congratulatory in the film, with both Hayes and population growth guru Dennis Meadows doing a fair bit of horn-tooting, but any sense of complacency is quickly undercut by the film's final act.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 10, 2009

A quietly majestic survey of the hard-won successes and instructive failures of the American environmental movement.

| Aug 4, 2009