A gorgeous, thoughtful film that is remarkably evenhanded in its treatment of the subject.

| Sep 22, 2020

One can see the hand of coproducer Terrence Malick in this gorgeous, lyrical documentary about ecological destruction in Austin, Texas.

| Sep 22, 2020

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

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

The result is an expansive and ambivalent testament to human ingenuity, human intransigence, and nature's endangered yet enduring power to move.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2008

By turns rapturously beautiful and unspeakably sad while considering the consequences of unchecked urban sprawl.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 6, 2008

Even if the director eventually hard-pedals her pantheist imagery into cliché, this inconvenient truth is discreet, intimate and regularly surprising.

| May 2, 2008

No one who sees this intriguing documentary will want to argue with reporter Greider when he forcefully insists, "We need a more mature regard for the future." We do indeed.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 14, 2008

[Cinematographer] Daniel has never shot a film for Malick, though you'd hardly guess so, given The Unforeseen's poetic and dreamy shots of nature that, like the images that open the Malick's "The Thin Red Line," hint at an Earthly paradise.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 14, 2008

The Unforeseen is a poetic and high-minded meditation on American developers' manifest destiny and the cancer it introduces into the natural world.

| Mar 10, 2008

As frustrating as it is welcome.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 7, 2008

An unusually poetic and meditative eco-themed documentary, Laura Dunn's The Unforeseen is as beautiful as it is ultimately depressing.

Full Review | Mar 5, 2008

Though fittingly directed by Laura Dunn, one can't help but feel the presence of producer Terrence Malick.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 1, 2008

The Unforeseen explores the rights of man, the death of nature, the water below, the air above and all that going, going, gone green in between.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 29, 2008

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 29, 2008

The movie wavers between Sundance-friendly issue film and spiritual reverie.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Feb 28, 2008

Add The Unforeseen to the catalog of artfully produced nonfiction films that show how humans are screwing up the planet.

| Original Score: B | Feb 28, 2008

The movie's glacial pace and willingness to let its mind and eye wander that produces its spiritual and intellectual heft-not to mention its atypical visual splendor.

Full Review | Feb 27, 2008

A beautiful, soulful work about real estate development and sprawl, focused on Austin's beloved Barton Springs, and if you think that's impossible you haven't seen it.

Full Review | Mar 20, 2007

The kind of transformative viewing experience that has made the current period a golden age for nonfiction film.

Full Review | Jan 31, 2007