Cool It 2010

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Fresh evidence of widening desertification and other calamities linked to climate change is ignored for a lengthy take-down of Gore's admittedly specious use of Katrina as the future face of hurricanes. Read more

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: Blond, boyish and with an irrepressible faith in human adaptability, Mr. Lomborg is the anti-Gore. Read more

David Fear, Time Out: Consider it food for thought, spiced with a pinch of cult-of-personality gospel. Read more

John Hartl, Seattle Times: A wide-ranging, sometimes scattered new documentary that's positioned as a four-years-later answer to Al Gore's 2006 Oscar winner, "An Inconvenient Truth." Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Cool It fights propaganda with propaganda, accepting Lomborg's work at face value while giving little time to the many scientists who have taken issue with him. Read more

Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: It can be a little hard to digest so many ideas, especially in such rapid succession. The movie is never boring, but there may be some information overload for laymen in the audience. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: On one level, this is one filmmaker thumbing her nose at another. Unfortunately, a lot of what was wrong with Guggenheim's movie is wrong with Timoner's. Read more

Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: It's hard, too, to shake the sense that Lomborg is promoting more than just a different perspective on climate debate. He's promoting his book -- and himself. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: The telegenic Lomborg is the on-camera ''star'' of the show, while his angry critics growl on cue. Read more

Justin Lowe, Hollywood Reporter: Climate change doc overreaches its attempt at relevance. Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: By bringing in a diverse group of big thinkers to take part in a very animated, sometimes agitated, discussion, the filmmaker has succeeded in bringing what could have been a very dry mountain of data, theories and experimental research to vibrant life. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: It's been five years since Gore warned us that we only have 10 years to fix global warming -- hey, Al, my apartment is near the Hudson River. Wanna bet it's still above water in 2015? Read more

Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer: Cool It offers no new insights into the internecine debates in enviro-policy. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It's soothing when a film suggests that there are neat, simple solutions to vastly complex problems. But it's probably wrong. Read more

Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: Jam-packed but never disorienting, Cool It will definitely get your head spinning. Read more

Nicolas Rapold, Village Voice: Lomborg sounds like an infomercial huckster, down to the vow to have money for "all the remaining problems of the world" thanks to his low, low price for managing global warming. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Some of it sounds, quite frankly, nuts. And a few of Lomborg's enemies have said as much. But throwing tons of money at the problem with little result? That also sounds kind of crazy. Read more