It taps into a conflict on the most surface level without actually tracking the causes and effects over time, as a serious documentary should.

| Apr 22, 2023

. . .[Canadian writer/activist ] Maude Barlow does provide a voice of sanity and tenacity in a world seemingly gone mad with greed.

| Aug 22, 2017

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

The documentary shows in no uncertain terms that if we continue to abuse our water supply, Earth will become uninhabitable and humankind will become extinct.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 27, 2009

The film makes a convincing case for better oversight of public water systems, water conservation, better water treatment systems and better control of industrial pollution which contaminates water supplies.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 5, 2009

Before ending on a somewhat hopeful note of defiant activism, Irena Salina's globe-hopping documentary is a terrifying downer.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 5, 2008

Although meandering at times, Flow is still a serviceable documentary spouting daunting informational facts and figures about the freshwater supply threats and the perilous consequences that inevitably follow.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 2, 2008

Educational polemical documentary.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 1, 2008

You may never buy bottled water again after this.

| Nov 28, 2008

Not all documentaries are solution-oriented, but this is.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 14, 2008

The film is filled mostly with talking-head interviews and very one-sided reporting. So it's lucky that these are subjects that are extremely topical right now, and are of interest as a result.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 13, 2008

Problems are addressed in a narrative progression that gets more horrendous and builds into utter despair, except for the final few words of activism and optimism.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 7, 2008

The overarching theme here is that the Earth's freshwater supply is being contaminated, sucked dry and 'privatized' for the benefit of huge corporations that are establishing themselves as the heirs to the oil cartels.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 7, 2008

Flow might be alarmist propaganda, but with an estimated 20 years left before California's water supply is used up, it might be time to respond to the alarm.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 6, 2008

Channeling Soylent Green, Flow is fresh when it ties issues of supply, cost, quality, and extraction on 5 continents with the rise of giant water companies.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 1, 2008

Your tap water might be making you sick. But your bottled water might be making you sicker, while also enabling the environmental rape of the American heartland and unconscionable extortion in the Third World.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 23, 2008

The doomsday tone of the movie quickly becomes wearying, and after a certain point the information is simply repetitive, and thus loses much of its impact.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 23, 2008

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 21, 2008

| Original Score: B | Oct 18, 2008