Chasing Ice

The brisk, earnest Chasing Ice documents nature photographer James Balog as he creates the Extreme Ice Survey...

Most of the film ambles pleasantly, while Balog hikes through frozen landscapes that look like God's sculpture garden. But when we finally see the time-lapse images his cameras took, they're awesome and terrifying...

Containing breathtaking time-lapse photography, this laudable treatise on the impact of global warming would be more powerful if debutant Jeff Orlowski concentrated more on the science...

Jeff Orlowski's documentary begins as a straightforward biographical profile, before shifting up into something more urgent, impassioned and compelling.

...heart-stopping in its coverage of the brave and risky attempt by a scientist named James Balog and his team of researchers on the Extreme Ice Survey...