Ultimately, it leaves us unsettled, with a marked sense of instability and doom. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 12, 2023

The film plays out like a tale being told. The Italian director dares the audience to believe it is real.

| Aug 14, 2021

In taking on the shadow aspects of the environmental movement, the filmmakers have their hearts in the right place. Not sure about the corporate environmentalists.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2021

The film's broad-based approach can be uneven. Gibbs isn't nearly as compelling a figure as some of the activists he interviews and portrays...

| May 24, 2021

The Malthusian impulse comes to the fore, and one feels Gibbs is not beyond his own brand of moralism. But Planet of the Humans makes some valuable steps towards an actual reckoning of specious dogma.

| Jun 18, 2020

Launched in time for Earth Day, the message is lost in the medium.

| Original Score: 4/10 | May 24, 2020

A vital, eye-opening inquiry into American energy consumption.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 16, 2020

A film that challenges the paradigm of growth, especially the illusion that alternative energy can allow us to consume resources as if they were inexhaustible.

| May 9, 2020

Planet of the Humans trades in the worst form of purity-test liberalism, where green-energy enthusiasts are hypocrites and anyone who supports them is really just in deep denial about the endemic intransigence of the fossil-fuel industry.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 8, 2020

All the noise got my attention.

| Original Score: B | May 8, 2020

A feature-length made by an avowed environmentalist in 2020 could arm the public with information to work toward a better place along that spectrum...Gibbs doesn't have such critical democratic engagement in mind.

| May 7, 2020

This cri de coeur from... Gibbs may lack balance and counterarguments, but it convincingly makes the case that "less must be the new more" if humankind is to have any chance of not being wiped out due to overpopulation and overconsumption,

| May 4, 2020

I was absolutely educated by Planet of the Humans, but I was not entertained. I was not emotionally moved. I was not inspired to fight for change, and I was not shown any feasible solutions to the problems presented.

| Original Score: 6/10 | May 3, 2020

Planet of the Humans is wildly unscientific, outdated, full of falsehoods, and benefits fossil fuel industry promoters and climate deniers.

| May 1, 2020

[U]nlike Moore, Gibbs is an understated and somewhat flat narrator.

| Apr 28, 2020

Gibbs certainly knows his subject and he cares. But his delivery needed more energy to keep the audience engaged. Gibbs does not deliver the visuals and the information like Moore does, with humor and sarcasm.

| Apr 27, 2020

This may be just the sort of disillusioning we need if we want to rescue ourselves, but brace yourself.

| Apr 24, 2020

Bleak docu dispels clean energy beliefs; disturbing images.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 23, 2020

From the warnings of the 1950s to the 21st-century corporate takeover of green energy, a grim look at humanity's fate as the planet heats up. Is there any hope? This feels like only half the story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 23, 2020

The loosely structured assemblage of damning information eventually proves more numbing than illuminating.

| Apr 23, 2020