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No Impact Man is a very confused documentary that somehow puts its confusion to good use.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
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No Impact Man
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Follow the Manhattan-based Beavan family as they abandon their high consumption 5th Avenue lifestyle and try to live a year while making no net environmental impact.
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Fresh
This poignant, provocative documentary reduces the green movement to human scale -- and magnifies the size of mountain it's trying to climb.
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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A strange yet riveting portrait of a marriage enduring a year spent making as little environmental impact as possible.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
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Like reality TV, there are moments of drama that have an aura of awkward self-consciousness about them and incidents that feel, if not staged, at the very least orchestrated, amped up. But you have to hand it to Beavan and Conlin.
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh
It may not be the greatest of cinematic exercises, and it often feels contrived, but this documentary somehow is enlightening, ridiculous, foreboding and funny at the same time.
David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle
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