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Movie Overview
Director
• Irena Salina
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
Flow: For Love of Water (2008)

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OFCS Rating: 71% Fresh
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4/5
"(Director) Salina makes Flow function as a wake-up call to those who take such issues as an international given."  PopMatters  Bill Gibron

2/5
"this is a film that trickles instead of roars."  Filmcritic.com  Chris Barsanti

B
"You'll never want to buy a bottle of water again after seeing this essential documentary about the blatant theft being committed by companies like Nestle that have helped make water the third biggest global industry behind electricity and oil."  ColeSmithey.com  Cole Smithey

5/10
""Flow" critiques the commodification of water, which has resulted in increased global inequities."  PopMatters  Cynthia Fuchs

B-
"Educational polemical documentary."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

"The argument presented in 'Flow' is hardly one to disagree with, but the movie still falls into the self-defeating pattern of the genre as practiced now."  ReelTalk Movie Reviews  Donald J. Levit

3/4
"The inconvenient truth at the center of Flow: For Love of Water is that while the oil crisis is intensely debated and documented, disasters involving an even more essential fluid go perilously unnoticed."  Slant Magazine  Fernando F. Croce

2.5/4
"Although meandering at times, Flow is still a serviceable documentary spouting daunting informational facts and figures about the freshwater supply threats and the perilous consequences that inevitably follow."  Movie Eye  Frank Ochieng

4/5
"An enlightening documentary about the global war over water and the progress being made by activists against multinational corporations and their campaign of privatization."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

B+
"...astonishing in the amount of information packed into its lean ninety-three minute running time...enthralling (and frightening!) to listen to."  Reeling Reviews  Laura Clifford

"You may never buy bottled water again after this."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

B+
"This documentary finds a good balance between terrifying statistics, depressing images, talking heads, and hopeful suggestions."  Beliefnet  Nell Minow

"Offers up a call-to-arms against bottled water conglomerates that, in its structural sloppiness, feels like a high school student's tossed-off research paper."  Cinematical  Nick Schager

C+
"The film makes a convincing case for better oversight of public water systems, water conservation, better water treatment systems and better control of industrial pollution which contaminates water supplies."  Laramie Movie Scope  Robert Roten
OFCS Rating: 71% Fresh
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