Critic Reviews

A rapturous and enlightening look at the history of the environmental movement in America.

Devotees of the "Whole Earth Catalogue" may regard this film as a nostalgia trip, but it's much more comprehensive, more forward-looking than that.

A moving, elegiac, deeply contemplative work that leaves the viewer not with a save-the-world checklist, but rather a spirit of hopeful reflection.

An informative and nonpolemic look at the birth of the modern environmental movement and its various offshoots and key players.

Nearly a quarter of the way through Earth Days, the movie seems on-track to being just another tongue-clucking “Isn’t it a pity” doc, painted in broad strokes.

The rare ecological documentary that doesn’t nag us to run out of the movie theater and change the world.

There's great archival footage.

There is a sense of sadness around Earth Days, a sense that opportunities were not capitalized on, that not enough was done.

Feels like a prolonged campfire conversation, filled with weathered, measured talk about holistic thinking and finding a new perspective.

There's little that's new in the retelling, except mellowed musings on Environmentalism 2.0.