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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottNew Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottAlong the way, a raft of experts are featured -- including Times-Picayune outdoor editor Bob Marshall -- speaking bluntly about the cozy relationship between politicians and the oil industry.
- The Big Fix presents a compelling array of damning testimony from EPA officials, journalists, scientists and politicians as well as emotional scenes of distraught residents.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttA gloomy but perhaps realistic depiction of the forces of corruption and deceit that produce environmental catastrophes.
- 60Village VoiceErnest HardyVillage VoiceErnest HardyThe film's scope is staggering, including its detailed outlining of BP's origins and fingerprints across decades of unrest in Iran.
- 60New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanThough the Tickells' unabashedly partial, first-person approach is a liability, they present so much damning evidence that their case is - one hopes - impossible to ignore.
- 60The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenThe film's most upsetting scenes are its interviews with residents whose livelihood has been decimated and whose health has been compromised.
- 50VarietyRob NelsonVarietyRob NelsonAlternately gutsy and preachy, specific and scattered, the righteously angry pic risks alienating those who could be galvanized by its proof of Big Oil's corrupting omnipotence.
- 38Slant MagazineNick SchagerSlant MagazineNick SchagerThe Tickells' style is a predictable grab bag of interviews with outraged experts and journalists, TV news footage, and scenes in which the filmmakers (and, during one trip, fellow activists Peter Fonda and Amy Smart) make faux-daring journeys into the fray to bring back supposed realities that corporate America seeks to hide.