New York Times
Manohla Dargis
An unnerving, surprisingly affecting documentary about our environmental calamity [that] is such essential viewing.


Richard Roeper
Ebert and Roeper
A sobering look at the astounding changes in our planet over the last generation -- and the bleak future that awaits us if we don’t get our act together.

Newsday
John Anderson
If you still need an argument about global warming, the documentary -- makes a good one.


San Francisco Chronicle
Joe Garofoli
Best put by Bay Area entrepreneur and environmentalist Paul Hawken: "The best thing about the dilemma we're in is that we get to reimagine every single thing we do. And so there are two ways of looking at that: Oh, my gosh, what a big burden. The other way to look at it, which is the way I prefer, is: "What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world."


Detroit Full Press
Terry Lawson
It benefits the most by providing good advice and an abundance of well-considered ideas from forward thinkers of all stripes and persuasions who refuse to give up hope.

TreeHugger
“I had the chance to meet Leila Conners Petersen, the co-founder and president of Tree Media Group. Leila, along with Nadia Conners, co-directed the soon-to-be-released documentary. The 11th Hour which is narrated Leonardo DiCaprio. The 11th Hour examines the human relationship with earth from its earliest glimmers of innovation, to the challenges humanity faces in the present, to the possibilities of the future.”

Ecorazzi
Last night, after much anticipation, DiCaprio’s The 11th Hour premiered at Arclight Cinemas in Hollywood. In addition to the obvious Leo and directors Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen, many of LA’s greenies showed up, including some of our faves.

Variety
“True to its doom-laden title, global-warming doc "The 11th Hour" presents the viewer with reams of depressing data, loads of hand-wringing about the woeful state of humanity and, finally, some altogether fascinating ideas about how to go about solving the climate crisis.”

Vanity Fair
“If you go to leonardodicaprio.com, you will find that it is split down the middle. The left half is labeled "Leonardo," and will bring you up-to-date on his filmmaking career (doing rather nicely, with a recent Oscar nomination for his performance in Blood Diamond and, to some tastes, an even stronger performance in best-picture winner The Departed). The right half is labeled "Eco-Site"; it offers guides to various environmental concerns, tips on differences anyone can make, and links to dozens of green organizations and information.”


Salon.com
A haunting, elegiac history of how human beings have brought the planet to the edge of a precipice, and call upon an impressive array of thinkers to discuss how, and whether, we can avoid the abyss that waits below.


Chicago Reader
The filmmakers take pains not to foster fatalistic gloom, concentrating on some of the progressive solutions still available to us.


Toronto Star
If Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was a warning, The 11th Hour is the red alert.


Killer Movie Reviews
Nothing less than a complete rethinking of the relationship between humankind and the planet on which it lives. Complex, challenging, mind-expanding, and sometimes mind-blowing


About.com
Among recent documentaries questioning the status quo, The 11th Hour takes the most far-reaching point of view and connects issues into larger patterns, culminating in a truly global call for change.

TV Guide’s Movie Guide
Hugely effective documentary is a terrifying vision of exactly what's in store if we don't pay greater attention to what we're doing to the planet in our blind rush toward 'progress.'


Flick Filosopher
This ain't bread-and-circuses [celeb] infotainment intended to distract us from the very real, very dangerous problems we face as a society. It's exactly the opposite, and absolutely terrifying.

L.A. Weekly
The 11th Hour is ultimately a triumph of redemptive ideas that DiCaprio -- God bless his celebrity -- may finally succeed in transporting from the environmental fringe to the mainstream moviegoing audience.


Metromix.com
Manages to be serious without being extreme in its message that global warming is no longer something to be debated but addressed and fought NOW.

Cole Smithey.com
This global-warming documentary culls information from over 50 experts of many divergent backgrounds to succinctly verbalize the dire crisis of the Earth's ecosystem, and also provide thought-out solutions.

Leonardo on Access Hollywood
Leonardo talks extensively to Access Hollywood about The 11th Hour.

ScreenDaily.com
“Leonardo DiCaprio discreetly lends his weight as star and environmental campaigner to The 11th Hour, an unashamedly polemical documentary cum call-to-arms about the current dire state of the ecology - and future prospects for change.”


Montreal Gazette
“Leonardo DiCaprio's environmental film presents a concept of frugality that doesn't preach living cheaply.”


Hollywood Reporter
“Leonardo DiCaprio sat down with The Hollywood Reporter and a handful of select film publications at the Hotel du Cap in Cannes on Saturday to discuss his upcoming environmental documentary "The 11th Hour."


Reuters
“Hollywood star and long-time environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio has a message for the world: go green now, before it's too late. As DiCaprio tells it in film documentary "The 11th Hour," launched on Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival, people are living in the last minutes of the final hour before it may be too late to do anything about global warming.


The London Paper
“Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio has warned that humans face extinction because of global warming. The heartthrob has made a film, the 11th Hour, warning that the human race could be wiped out as a result of the environmental crisis.”