Fresh
While the hushed tones of Fox's would-be naif commentary slightly grate after a while, his film's images, contrasting natural beauty with industrial horror show, are bracingly effective indeed.
Trevor Johnston, Time Out
Overview
It is happening all across America-rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from an energy company wanting to lease their property. Reason? The company hopes to tap into a reservoir dubbed the "Saudi Arabia of natural gas." Halliburton developed a way to get the gas out of the ground-a hydraulic drilling process called "fracking"-and suddenly America finds itself on the precipice of becoming an energy superpower.
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97%
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Fresh
An exhaustive and eye-opening look at natural-gas drilling and its potential dangers.
Christopher Kelly, Dallas Morning News
Fresh
With its jolting images of flammable tap water and chemically burned pets, New York theater-director-turned-documentarian Josh Fox's Sundance-feted shocker makes an irrefutable case against U.S. corporate "fracking."
Rob Nelson, Village Voice
Fresh
It's not pretty, but it works for some. Gasland won a special jury prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
Katie Hewitt, Globe and Mail
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