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Wild Life

Wild Life

2023

Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin

Documentary, Self: Kristine Tompkins, Yvon Chouinard, Rick Ridgeway ...

7.0

32

Documentary A portrait of conservationists Kris and Doug Tompkins chronicling their fight to preserve one of the last truly wild places on earth.

	Author	Review
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"It’s still beautiful to look at, but I most enjoyed 'Wild Life' as a complicated procedural about land use"	POS
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"A seductive, slightly one-sided doc (...) Directors honor Kris and Doug Tompkins' remarkable achievement in claiming millions of acres of Chilean wilderness as national parkland, but gloss over its eco-colonialist implications"	NEU
United States	Rodrigo Perez The Playlist	"A heartfelt tribute to the conservationists behind patagonia"	POS
United States	Esther Zuckerman IndieWire	"An uncharacteristically thin doc (...) This time around, the 'Free Solo' and 'The Rescue' filmmakers are ultimately unwilling to fully engage with the more controversial elements of their subject"	NEG
United States	Nick Allen rogerebert.com	"Here is a warming, epic story that exemplifies how it’s not too late to make big changes—to find love in the middle of one’s life or to find a new passion (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Thomas Floyd The Washington Post	"'Wild Life' lacks the pulse-pounding suspense of 'Free Solo' and 'The Rescue', but its depiction of selfless philanthropy is galvanizing all the same (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Michael Rechtshaffen Los Angeles Times	"Neither simply motivational ecological documentary nor moving love story, 'Wild Life' is committed in equal measure to the formidable challenges of land preservation and self-preservation"	POS
United States	Josh Kupecki Austin Chronicle	"A beautiful and reassuring concept to imagine (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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