Time to Choose

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Time to Choose

2016

1h 37m

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The worldwide challenges of climate change and the innovators and leaders who work to find a solution.

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David Lewis

San Francisco Chronicle

The aerial cinematography is breathtaking: We can feel the fragility of the planet, but also its power to heal - if only we give it a chance.

Rated: 4/4

Jun 9, 2016

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Sam Adams

TheWrap

Perhaps the scariest thing about it is the realization that if the fate of the world depends on well-meaning issue docs, then we really are doomed.

Rated: C+

Jun 3, 2016

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Peter Rainer

Christian Science Monitor

What separates... Time to Choose from the many other documentaries about climate change is that, after dutifully presenting many of the usual horrifying climate statistics, it lays out a series of possible solutions, already available, to the crisis.

Rated: B+

Jun 3, 2016

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Linda and Al Lerner

Movies and Shakers

This is a well researched piece on climate change that graphically shows changes that need to be addressed and soon!

Oct 21, 2019

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Jennifer Lee

Willamette Week

Positing "smart technologies" as the existing and cost-efficient solution, Time to Choose drives the message home.

Rated: A-

Jun 16, 2016

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S. Jhoanna Robledo

Common Sense Media

Climate-change doc is visually beautiful but oversimplified.

Rated: 3/5

Jun 8, 2016

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More preaching to the choir documentaries trying to educate the people that least need it. There is nothing new in this movie that anyone with some modicum of appreciation for what's going on has not seen already. These documentaries should be playing on a loop in TV's during the RNC, not indie theaters in Seattle. If you remove yourself from this, the movie is well made, depressing and at the same time hopeful. Certainly a movie everyone should watch but why bother, the Kardashians are on.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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I liked the positives in this movie. Usually it's the negative stuff on how we need to act on climate change. This really showed people who are acting and steps people can take. Also the deforestation due to palm oil was something I had no idea about and will be more aware now. Pretty good documentary.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/12/23

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Another documentary based on lies in order fill the wallets of its profiteers.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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Much of the information presented in the film will be familiar to people who follow environmental and climate change issues closely. What distinguishes this film is its beauty and humanity. I was by turns horrified, awed, disturbed, moved, and inspired. While the reality and challenges of global climate change and environmental despoliation are severe, the film does point to solutions. It would be hard for me to imagine that any viewer could experience it without feeling an urgent need to take action of some kind to help in the effort to change over to sustainable, green energy. Climate change deniers abound, especially in the U.S., but the picture that the film brings forward so starkly, so undeniably, must give the most hardened of them pause. This is a must-see.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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One of the most important films to be made this year. A MUST see!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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The worldwide challenges of climate change and the innovators and leaders who work to find a solution.

Director: Charles Ferguson
Producer: Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs
Screenwriter: Charles Ferguson, Chad Beck
Distributor: Abramorama
Production Co: Representational Pictures
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 3, 2016, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 12, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $29.2K
Runtime: 1h 37m

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