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Countdown to Zero Review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    70

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally favorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 70

    out of 100

    The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis

    Paying to see Countdown to Zero is like tipping a fortuneteller to predict the manner of your death.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Variety

    A politically urgent picture, it will also literally scare the breath out of what will certainly be a worldwide audience.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter John DeFore

    Convincingly argued and extremely polished, it has theatrical potential for auds whose reservoir of worry about humanity's future hasn't already run dry.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

    Inspired in part by the success of "An Inconvenient Truth," the makers of Countdown to Zero are determined to mobilize public opinion to zero out the world's nuclear arsenal. We all should be rooting for their success, because failure would leave no one left to mourn our mistakes.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    Wall Street Journal

    As odd as it may sound, it's a remarkably beautiful movie.

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  • 91

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    Countdown to Zero makes old terrors radioactively new again.

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