Mostly the documentary, which was finished by the Icelandic-Canadian film-maker Sturla Gunnarsson, leaves you with a profound sense of a life cut short and a mission incomplete.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 22, 2019

It's powerful stuff, in places.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 22, 2019

Sharkwater Extinction isn't just out to make you feel bad, though, it's cannily also out to entertain.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 20, 2019

The film is so effective at generating outrage that one wishes it had taken a few steps back sometimes, to put more context around the offenses and crimes that it shows us.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 4, 2019

[Stewart's] passionate documentary, boasting stirring underwater photography and an equally poignant Jonathan Goldsmith score, speaks urgently on his behalf.

| Feb 28, 2019

Sharkwater Extinction serves as a fitting cinematic tribute informing us that while progress has been made, much more work needs to be done.

| Feb 28, 2019

Stewart... reveals a cruel market in which tens of millions of sharks are caught every year, their fins cut off and their bodies thrown back in the water to die.

| Feb 28, 2019

A plea for transparency and conservation whose gorgeous 4K cinematography should make it an enticing proposition for nonfiction cinephiles and activists alike.

| Jan 31, 2019

Stewart's third film is also his best... with scenes of marine genocide that should make us all weep tears of rage.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 26, 2018

Stewart believed people would rally to the shark cause if only they knew the gravity of the situation. The film is now made, the word is out and Stewart more than did his part.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 6, 2018