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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Original-CinLiam LaceyOriginal-CinLiam LaceyCredit goes to Gibbs for the courage to question the comfortable consensus. But to present a crisis with no resolution feels like a job half-done.
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MoorePopulation control, consumption control, treading more lightly? Yeah, we know that. We just don’t want to hear it. Yet. Will Planet of the Humans open our ears?
- 60VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyThere’s nothing particularly elegant about the way Planet of the Humans arrives at that downbeat thesis. Though well-shot and edited, the material here is simply too sprawling to avoid feeling crammed into one ungainly package even narrator Gibbs admits “might seem overwhelming.”
- 55TheWrapSteve PondTheWrapSteve PondWhile the film sometimes seems to be stretching to find problems in every corner of the environmental movement (apparently, no company that claims to be green can also plug into the power grid), it does a brutally effective job of suggesting that a dream of endless renewable energy may be unattainable.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe loosely structured assemblage of damning information eventually proves more numbing than illuminating.