Proves even more revealing than the photographs it celebrates.

| Jun 1, 2020

An astonishing visual indictment of man's inhumanity to Mother Earth, as seen through the documentary prism of Jennifer Baichwal.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 23, 2018

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: A | Sep 7, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 9, 2008

My first question: What kind of nefarious events had to occur so that I could purchase the computer with which I write this review?

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 7, 2007

Feels constrained and rather dutiful, no matter how passionate these people are about what they're observing.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 27, 2007

Burtynsky calls for "a whole new way of thinking" about the world's economy and ecology, though he never says what's wrong with the old way.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 27, 2007

The movie works best traveling from the eye straight to the conscience.

| Jul 27, 2007

Again and again, Baichwal tapers passages of her film toward resolution in the form of a finished picture by Burtynsky, telescoping her vision and his.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 20, 2007

Unfortunately this film, for all its mesmerizing merits, isn't that alarm, the clock still ticking to doomsday while we all continue to sit by and twiddle our thumbs in misbegotten stupor.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 19, 2007

Opens with [an] extended moment: a 10-minute-long tracking shot of workers, rows and rows and rows of them, putting in their hours at a Chinese factory. It's an epic touch and reason enough to see this movie in a theater with a large screen.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 13, 2007

Without browbeating, hectoring, lecturing or sermonizing, Manufactured Landscapes makes an inelegant point elegantly. The point: Humanity is altering the landscape drastically and by implication irrevocably.

| Jul 12, 2007

Manufactured Landscapes is a visual poem, an irony in that it moves slowly while capturing beauty about industrial life which is rarely either.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 29, 2007

What's remarkable is that [Baichwal's] footage manages to add meaning to the photographs, already so powerful on their own.

| Jun 25, 2007

A mesmerizing work of visual oncology, a witness to a cancer that's visible only at a distance but entwined with the DNA of everything we buy and everywhere we shop. We are not in charge of this, you may want to reply. If not, who is?

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 22, 2007

Doesn't go very far beneath the surface, or ask many provocative questions.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 21, 2007

Yet another 'isn't it a pity' doc, where the damnable inequity of globalization provides an occasion for muted, impotent rage.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jun 21, 2007

An extraordinary visual record of change on an unprecedented scale.

| Jun 21, 2007