The Ivory Game

  • 2016


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Positive Reviews 8
Negative reviews 8
Average Rating 3.0/5

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2.5
Scarcity drives up prices, meaning that dealers actually want elephants to go extinct, so doesnt destroying ivory just intensify the problem No doubt .. Av Club
1.5
A real life ecological thriller in the mold of The Cove and Virunga, directors Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkanis engaging overview makes up for its o .. Indie Wire
4.5
Netflix proves that a safe haven exists for documentary filmmakers to shed light on important issues without a superhero or marquee Hollywood star in .. We Got This Covered
1.5
A documentary that plays with the gripping pacing and glossy production values of a suspenseful, international thriller. Rogerebert
4.5
An extraordinary documentary that gives us hope that the last wild elephants in Africa can be saved from extinction. Spirituality And Practice
1.5
Of course youll see the big fish get hooked before the end a crowd pleasing suspense thriller doesnt introduce a villain if that villain wont get best .. Village Voice
1.5
While more information on the animals and their ecosystems is needed, the stakes described here are immense, as is the sorrow over majestic creatures .. The New York Times
4.5
But dont think Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkanis The Ivory Game is just an all educational sound byte fueled heartstring tug. The Film Stage
4.5
What is admirable about Ivory Game is that it recognizes the complexity of the issues. Hollywood Reporter
4.5
The cameras avoid the goriest angles of the mutilated animals, but the horror is amplified as the film moves from the savannas of Kenya and Tanzania t .. Los Angeles Times
4.5
The dramatic big game in a documentary like this one is the poachers themselves, and thats where the movie is at once suspenseful and slipshod. Variety
4.5
The Ivory Game is a searing look at the cost of ivory and the bravery of the men and women who have dedicated themselves to ending the cycle despite r .. The Play List
1.5
Later, theres an equally sickening if far less visceral look at how millions upon millions of dollars worth of tusks can be haphazardly stacked on cre .. Battleship Pretension
1.5
The guerrilla tactics lend the film a gravitas that mere biographical portrait would miss. The Film Experience
4.5
It is a film that explains more than it judges, which makes it much more powerful than the standard hand wringing environmental documentary. Esquire
1.5
It doesnt take an ethnography lab to unpack the vested power of a tusk, but perhaps a more rigorous empiricism (e.g., Farocki), while compromising box .. Cinema Scope
1.5
While it is wonderful to see rangers, conservationists and activists in the documentary trying to fight and expose this terrible crime, you fear its a .. Daily News



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