Daniel Goldhaber's film wants to do more than just thrill: its thinking about the ethics of violence is rare.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 18, 2024

The environmental thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline is a breathless, roaring film, both in its thrilling scenes of tension and urgent messages surrounding the climate crisis.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 3, 2024

It seeks to change the minds of people around the world, whether or not it will do that will ultimately be the legacy of the film and the topic of climate control as a whole.

| Original Score: B | Aug 27, 2024

Goldhaber’s smart and eloquent portrait of the next inevitability in climate justice makes for difficult viewing. It forces us to confront questions that have no easy answers. But more than that, it forces us to realize the alternatives are even worse.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 3, 2024

he magnetism of How to Blow Up a Pipeline lies in its straightforward presentation, its relentless forward momentum and its complete absence of worried moralizing.

| Jun 19, 2024

Goldhaber thrillingly paints this message with the manic energy of a Safdie brothers film through its handheld camera and incessant shouting from its leads, punctuated by Gavin Brivik's distressing Daniel Lopatin-esque score.

| Mar 5, 2024

The theories of Andreas Malm come to life in a fictional story about a random cast of characters united by one big idea: global warming is so urgent a threat to life that it is their duty to resist it by any means necessary.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 3, 2024

Pipeline is simultaneously a top-notch thriller and an examination of our modern political system where the voices of individual citizens seem to carry no weight.

| Jan 2, 2024

How to Blow Up a Pipeline is as immersive as it is concise -- the group’s hunger to effect change by criminal means is illustrative of a mindset that is already a reality for some. Making such profound shifts engaging and entertaining is impressive.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 29, 2023

The warning buried within “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” might be challenging to uncover

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 15, 2023

As a work of suspense and a call to radical action, it's hard to shake its power, but it also feels like there was even more interpersonal tension and ideological conflict between its characters that was left on the cutting room floor.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 28, 2023

Far from being a simple “how to” heist-like movie, there are unexpected twists and surprises in the story, and there is plenty of suspense, too. It is not very believable, but at least it makes a thoughtful, if unconvincing, argument for eco-terrorism.

| Original Score: B | Nov 17, 2023

Its sense of urgency makes How to Blow Up a Pipeline an absolutely necessary film... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 16, 2023

How to Blow Up a Pipeline is a fabulously told tale that cleverly uses a fractured narrative to ratchet up the tension, while also making you care about the fate of the characters.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2023

How to Blow Up a Pipeline introduces the characters’ reasons through a non-linear narrative structure. Each character has a personal reason why they must follow the coalition and destroy the pipeline, which affects their livelihoods.

| Sep 8, 2023

How to Blow Up a Pipeline urges the viewer to really think about the climate emergency and asks that action be immediate and direct. There has been too much time wasted trying to make people pay attention.

| Sep 6, 2023

Whatever you think of Malm's thesis, it's hard not to share the frustration that clearly motivates the film.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 31, 2023

Terrorists or saviors of the world? Regardless the answer, the film would need more narrative development, a stronger staging, and deeper character insight to fully satisfy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 28, 2023

Whether you approve of the extreme action taken by the octet will depend on how you approach this modest but well-made film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 25, 2023

How to Blow Up a Pipeline provides a propulsive, combustible watch as it moves towards the realization of the characters’ pipe dream.

| Aug 24, 2023