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Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds

2020

Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer

Documentary, Self: Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer

6.8

287

Documentary The film explores how shooting stars, meteorites, and deep impacts on Earth have shaped human mythology and focused our attention on other realms and worlds.

	Author	Review
United States	Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"An elegant fusion of science and awe (...) Its climactic sequences (...) are alive with jaw-dropping, soul-stirring beauty."	POS
United States	Jason Gorber SlashFilm	"[There is] a strong sense of engagement and excitement that illustrates better than most the thrill of discovery and the scope of what these humble rocks represent"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"[It] feels strangely impersonal. Not incurious (...), but somehow divested, as if all this talk about cosmic dust and non-existence only concerns him indirectly.	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"[A] wonderstruck meditation on the eternal mystery of meteorites (...) Herzog revels in the poetry of meteorites"	POS
United States	Gary Goldstein Los Angeles Times	"In the end, though, it’s hard to pinpoint the doc’s exact takeaway. Its subject matter is contemplative and alluring, fearsome and wondrous, yet often inherently inconclusive"	NEU
United States	Budd Wilkins Slant	"The documentary’s ethnographic bent is balanced out by a healthy dose of hard science (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"Apocalyptic comets, complicated math, ancient rituals, eccentric scientists: Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer’s new documentary has it all."	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"The result is a film that can be a bit dry when Oppenheimer leads the scientific discussion but that springs back to life when Herzog the filmmaker allows his awe to come through the camera (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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