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The Island President Review

  • Release Date: Mar 28, 2012
  • Rated: Thematic Elements, Some Violent Content and Smoking
  • Runtime: 1 hr. 41 min.
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign, Documentary
  • Director:Jon Shenk

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  • 4.0
    72

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  • 60

    out of 100

    Village Voice Melissa Anderson

    The Island President also shows how the most high-minded idealists inevitably become deal-makers: The toothless agreement eventually ratified in Copenhagen - which calls for but doesn't require CO2 reductions - is lauded by Nasheed as "a very good, planet-saving document."

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The New York Times A.O. Scott

    The hope that infuses this movie makes it all the more upsetting to walk out of the theater and contemplate a looming disaster that the world's leaders seem unable to prevent.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Variety

    In the face of rising sea levels, the Maldive Islands are the Alamo, and environmental crusader Mohamed Nasheed is their Davy Crockett. Boasting astonishing access, director Jon Shenk's The Island President documents a brave battle against overwhelming odds.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

    Jon Shenk's fascinating documentary feature The Island President personalizes the threat of global warming, and nationalizes it too, by focusing on Mohamed Nasheed, the former president of the Maldives.

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