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Countdown to Zero
Directed by
Lucy Walker
PG
2010
1h 31m
Documentary
6.9
80%
72%
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A documentary about how the likelihood of nuclear weapons (or fissile materials) usage has increased due to the rise of terrorism and lack of safeguards and verification.
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Cast of Countdown to Zero
Gary Oldman
Narrator (voice)
Graham Allison
Self
James Baker III
Self
Bruce Blair
Self
Tony Blair
Self
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Self
Matthew Bunn
Self
Richard Burt
Self
Jimmy Carter
Self
Mike Chinoy
Self
Joseph Cirincione
Self
Richard Cizik
Self
Thomas D'Agostino
Self
F.W. de Klerk
Self
Pascal Fias
Self
Alexander Glaser
Self
Countdown to Zero Ratings & Reviews
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Made-up horror movies have nothing on Countdown to Zero.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Easily the scariest movie of the year.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
The news is ugly. The film is often gorgeous and wields a cumulative power to humanize potential devastation.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Walker adroitly mixes extensive newsreel footage, lively graphics and talking-head interviews with dozens of people, from scientists to think tank folks to world leaders...
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It's easy to watch, impossible to deny, and very, very tough to forget.
Film.com
Jonathan F. Richards
Countdown to Zero may not be the most fun you'll have in the movies this year, but it is absolutely mandatory viewing.
HollywoodChicago.com
Brian Tallerico
Lucy Walker's Countdown to Zero is the most terrifying film of the year and one of the most frightening documentaries in a long time.
Movie Retriever
Brian Tallerico
This is easily the scariest movie of the year, but like a lot of horror films, it goes a bit past the line that it needed to in order to make its point and loses its effectiveness through overkill.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Alternately edifying and alarming.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
This scarily convincing argument that the end, if not quite nigh, is at least foreseeable urges us to wake up and smell the highly enriched uranium.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Some of the footage is astounding.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
This documentary from producer Lawrence Bender (An Inconvenient Truth) attempts to shake up the equation, portraying a future attack as probable yet making the gradual elimination of weapons-grade material seem achievable.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
[A] well-researched, anxiety-provoking film...
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Illustrating the many ways nuclear weapons could kill you makes Countdown to Zero one of the most frightening documentaries you'll ever see, or endure.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Smart, swift and scary as hell.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
World destruction is no laughing matter, and yet this movie's treatment of it is sometimes amusingly desperate.
The Simon
Tim Grierson
It's fast-paced and engaging, and at 91 minutes it doesn't overstay its welcome. But director Lucy Walker follows the documentary formula with too much maniacal fidelity.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
I get it, nuclear weapons are bad, and if I were a High School social studies teacher I'd show this film to my class without reservation, I just wouldn't want to buy a ticket to see it in a movie theatre.
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
The nighttime photography, of the world's most luminous cities, awakens our sense of grief -- not for what's gone, but for what could be, in the blink of an eye. The editing by Brad Fuller and Brian Johnson is miraculous.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Walker has something important to say with Countdown To Zero, but if this movie were standing on a doorstep with a petition, most reasonable people would sign it quickly and send it on its way, rather than inviting it in to chat.
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