Fresh
Perhaps "Switch's" greatest strength is in giving us enough information to try to come up with better questions of our own.
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times
Overview
To recover and ancient scroll, a Chinese agent battles the Japanese yakuza and British mercenaries.
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Rotten
Exhaustive and exhausting, the new energy documentary "Switch" is so monotonous it makes "An Inconvenient Truth" look like "Armageddon."
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Fresh
A methodical, occasionally remedial survey of the energy crisis and its possible solutions, Switch fits a subject often treated polemically into a more benign, continuing education mold.
Michelle Orange, Village Voice
Fresh
"Switch," a thorough and sober-minded documentary about the past, present and future of energy, is refreshingly free of hot air.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
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