March of the Penguins

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Critics' Reviews

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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Crust
As uplifting as anything you will find in theaters.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
Jacquet's movie is as visually ravishing as "Winged Migration," and more gripping.Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
There's more drama, and more heartbreak, in March of the Penguins than in most movies that are actually scripted to tug at our feelings.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
It's poignant to watch the chicks in their youth, fed by their parents, playing with their chums, the sun climbing higher every day, little suspecting what they're in for.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
A cinematic experience that is dazzlingly different from anything currently in theaters, March of the Penguins captivates with its straightforward but powerful story of dogged determination, survival against harsh odds and sacrifice.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Luc Jacquet's exquisitely shot eye-of-God study of a year in the lives of these distinctive birds is a nature film built with a feel for the epic and a love of operatic narrative.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Ann Hornaday
It doesn't take a screenwriter, for example, to point out the uncanny fact that, when two parent penguins perform a neck-curving pas de deux above their tiny chick, they resemble nothing so much as a perfect heart.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
A delightful, wholesome experience for the family.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
This sentimental but riveting film has no qualms about playing on our emotions.Read Full Review »
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