Blackfish

"Righteous, captivating and entirely successful as single-issue-focused documentaries go, Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s film draws on startling video footage and testimonies from former orca trainers, building an authoritative argument on behalf of this majestic species" 

"Focusing on the notoriously aggressive orca Tilikum, this gripping film presents a persuasive case against keeping the species – and by extension any wild animal – in captivity for the purposes of human entertainment" 

"'Blackfish' (...), does much to restore a realistic sense of danger, interviewing former park workers who detail their shoddy, nonscientific training, and chronicling the much-suppressed history of whale-on-human violence (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" 

"Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s delicately lacerating documentary, 'Blackfish', uses the tragic tale of a single whale and his human victims as the backbone of a hypercritical investigation into the marine-park giant SeaWorld Entertainment." 

"The film may be depressing. But even with a terrible, watery musical score, it's also good. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out 4)" 

"Forget 'The Conjuring', 'Blackfish' may be the scariest movie around. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"