This is a fascinating, thoughtful documentary film, filled with stunning photography, that makes a powerful point of which we should all be aware.

| Nov 30, 2021

Anthropocene is a visually stunning and urgently important documentary about how humans are changing the earth in seemingly irrevocable ways.

| Nov 30, 2021

Visually stunning and narratively stark...

| Nov 30, 2021

The film is warning to all who love the natural world, and can't help but lead to audiences to ask what part they can play in changing our current course.

| Nov 30, 2021

The Human Epoch allows us to bear witness to destruction and desecration in every corner of the planet, not by natural forces but due to human greed, ignorance and apathy.

| Nov 30, 2021

There is human-made beauty in "Anthropocene," but so much of it seems to come at such a staggering cost that it's hard not to look at it resentfully. That said, there is hope here, too...

| Nov 30, 2021

The forecast is not good. But this documentary is particularly excellent. In fact, it's essential viewing.

| Nov 30, 2021

Quiet narration from the impeccably elegant but sympathetic Alicia Vikander provides the perfect accompaniment; never shrill or angry, just stating the facts.

| Nov 30, 2021

It purports to be a "cinematic meditation" on the havoc humans have wreaked on the environment, yet the style-over-substance approach reduces these eco-conscious contemplations to a mere exercise in aesthetics, without any social or political context.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 1, 2021

hat have we done to ourselves? The documentary 'Anthropocene: The Human Epoch' answers that in a disturbing way.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 10, 2020

Rarely has a film about the end of the world looked as beautiful as this as directors Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky utilize the widescreen format to brilliant effect, starkly capturing the size and scope of the devastation they capture.

| Original Score: 4.0/4.0 | Nov 21, 2020

Astonishing: sometimes oddly beautiful but mostly like sci-fi horror. An anti-meditation nightmare, a call to arms if only we were ready to finally address our thoughtless impact on planet Earth.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 6, 2020

This powerful, poetic film shows the stunning beauty (and horrific impact) of humanity's creations as we leave the Holocene Epoch and enter the Anthropocene.

| Mar 20, 2020

Anthropocene's non-didactic approach makes space for the viewer's own thoughts, letting them meditate on their place in the planet it's presenting.

| Feb 28, 2020

This one of those docs that is built on the notions that seeing is believing and actions speak louder than words.

| Jan 24, 2020

[T]he narration feels out of place for this visually sumptuous trip and its flashcard-like info doesn't really mesh with the sensory film it's trying to be.

| Jan 17, 2020

This is a movie that provides visually pure and beautifully photographed proof of the danger in which people are putting the planet.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 22, 2019

We're used to documentaries that celebrate gorgeous scenes of the natural world, but "Anthropocene: The Human Epoch" adds a discomfiting twist, presenting beautiful images of some of the ugliest things that humans are doing to the planet.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2019

This is a very beautiful movie, but there is a difference between bombarding an audience with images and actually telling them something.

| Oct 4, 2019

The film's stunning visuals of these and other impacted places, particularly the aerial shots, capture an abstract imagery that is at once beautiful and horrifying.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 3, 2019