This international political environmental thriller will have you telling everyone to be quiet so you can see and hear every moment. After it ends you want to talk about it with everyone and convince them to watch it. Now. Go watch it now!

| Original Score: 10 | Nov 17, 2019

[M]ostly this is swooping cameras, rousing soundtrack score, and the fist pump of pleasure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 28, 2019

It is heartfelt, but its periodic attempts at thriller-style bouts of excitement are redundant, and I wondered sometimes if the film-makers were sure what exactly their story was.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 26, 2019

Sea of Shadows makes clear the devastating impact of man's desire to ride roughshod over nature, and the strength and bravery of those determined to redress the balance, for the sake of us all.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 25, 2019

An impressive film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 25, 2019

Does a great job of highlighting the corruption of the authorities and the bravery of those people who put their lives on the line to save a species and thwart a multi-million dollar industry.

| Sep 24, 2019

The film paints a harrowing portrait of just what capitalism has done to the planet.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2019

This murky, compelling tale exists at the crossroads of corruption and idealism.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2019

Suspenseful documentary, chronicling an ecological crisis in the Sea of Cortez.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 8, 2019

Like all the best documentaries, "Sea of Shadows" makes us fume with anger. But what are we going to do about it? Ladkani defiantly leaves the next move up to us.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 28, 2019

A documentary that unreels like an action thriller to tell the story of attempts to save the vaquita porpoise from extinction.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 25, 2019

Very well made yet strangely disheartening.

| Jul 24, 2019

Sea of Shadows is an urgent call to action from Director Richard Ladkani. Save the Vaquita or they face extinction.

| Jul 17, 2019

As important as it is compelling, this gut-wrenching documentary is harrowing and emotionally powerful.

| Jul 13, 2019

An engrossing portrait of mankind's encroaching, self-inflicted demise, with moneyed interests leading us, like the pied piper, off the cliff and into the sea.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 12, 2019

Heartfelt ecology thriller documentary.

| Original Score: B | Jul 12, 2019

The plot twists are so spot on that a screenwriter might have rejected them.

| Jul 11, 2019

While success is not guaranteed, "Sea of Shadows" dramatically demonstrates how and why the battle continues to be fought.

| Jul 11, 2019

[Richard] Ladkani's camerawork is agile and sleek, and the editing is super-sound, so even with a complicated web of crime, corruption, socioeconomic tension, multiple languages, blurred-out faces and folks who operate in the dark, it's easy to follow.

| Original Score: 8.2/10 | Jul 10, 2019

Not your typical DisneyNature film and definitely not for kids ... the scenes with the vaquitas show them to be beautiful animals with true intelligence and soul, making their plight that much more heartbreaking.

| Jul 10, 2019