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Blackfish

2013

Gabriela Cowperthwaite

Documentary

7.3

6,441

Documentary Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. Blackfish shows the sometimes devastating consequences of keeping such intelligent and sentient creatures in captivity.

	Author	Review
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"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"	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"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"	POS
United States	Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	"'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)"	POS
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"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."	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"The film may be depressing. But even with a terrible, watery musical score, it's also good. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out 4)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Forget 'The Conjuring', 'Blackfish' may be the scariest movie around. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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