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Surviving Progress
Directed by
Mathieu Roy
,
Harold Crooks
Not Rated
2011
86m
Documentary
7.4
71%
79%
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Theorists consider the evolution of human society and question the sustainability of the current paradigm.
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Cast of Surviving Progress
Stephen Hawking
Self
David Suzuki
Self
Jane Goodall
Self
Mathieu Roy
Director / Writer
Harold Crooks
Director / Writer
Denise Robert
Producer
Daniel Louis
Producer
Surviving Progress Ratings & Reviews
Shadow and Act
Shadow and Act Staff
Muddled with no motivation...
TheIndependentCritic.com
Richard Propes
It is rather nice to have a film that doesn't go all histrionic and overplay the drama.
Washington Examiner
Kelly Jane Torrance
These are crucial questions facing us, no matter what side of the aisle you're on. But, unfortunately, you won't find any substantive discussion of them here.
CraveOnline
Witney Seibold
But this is not a film interested in partisan finger-wagging, nor is it looking to place blame directly on one specific group or another (despite some pretty heavy glances toward [some] politicians). No. "Surviving Progress" is more philosophical.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
These are critically important issues, but it needs a sharper point to get through thick skulls, and even evolved humans who are tired of the treadmill of progress might ask: What else is new?
PopMatters
Sarah Boslaugh
Instead of providing anything in the way of new ideas or even in-depth treatment of old ideas, Surviving Progress is content to be the world's longest book trailer.
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
A slick jeremiad, "Surviving Progress" is expertly made (it's far from tedious) but intellectually muddled.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
[A] remarkably cogent, albeit remarkably alarming, film.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks, adapting a book by Ronald Wright, argue so persuasively that the human race is spinning out of control.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It's self-evident and tells the truth.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Maybe the people in this movie really don't know what they're talking about. In any case, believing them gets you nowhere, because they offer nothing.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks's powerful but pessimistic documentary look at the corner we humans seem to be painting ourselves into, economically, ecologically and otherwise.
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
[A] truly disturbing documentary, which pretty much argues that human beings are hard-wired to self-destruct.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
This cautionary documentary makes a strong case that our technological advances are in fact dooming us.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
The cumulative power of so many great minds envisioning our potential self-destruction is undeniable.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Zippily edited and nicely photographed, "Surviving Progress" is a fine summary of a hot ugly mess. But like too many short documentaries, it can't do justice to its complex topic or finally to those of us watching.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
A provocative if scattershot documentary from directors Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks, who wander off topic more than once as they introduce myriad other voices.
Slant Magazine
Kalvin Henely
By turning the idea of progress on its head, the nimble Surviving Progress exquisitely presents to us the possibility that humankind's achievements may cause its downfall.
Village Voice
Ernest Hardy
The anticapitalism prognosis is grim, and the hope offered is slim indeed.
Variety
Dennis Harvey
Surviving Progress offers a cinematic wakeup call so cogent and non-didactic even Tea Partyers would be hard-pressed to shrug it off.
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