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Little White Lies - Limara Salt | Screenrush Barometer:  |
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'The aim is obvious, as attention desperately needs to be paid to the flamingos' plight. And even though narrator Mariella Frostrup's dulcet tones can bring on the sandman, it does show that pink flamingos don't just come in oversized cocktail glasses.' |
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The Independent on Sunday - Nicholas Barber | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'The footage is glorious, but the pseudo-Biblical script, read by Mariella Frostrup, makes you pine for David Attenborough.' |
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The Observer - Philip French | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'very beautiful' |
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The Financial Times - Martin Hoyle | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'A patently devoted labour of love - are wildlife filmmakers capable of anything else? - it shows a painterly eye in frame after exquisitely judged frame, not afraid of economy and balance - one shot of a speck moving towards others, distantly clustered, on a blank blue background, evokes the spare mastery of a Chinese watercolour.' |
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Time Out - Derek Adams | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'the cinematography is exquisite; it's admirably devoid of any overt anthropomorphism; the narration, while a little too mythical in context, is informative; the music is perfect; and, for a Disney-branded film, it's surprisingly willing to face up to the more grisly side of life in the wild.' |
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Empire | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'Nature documentary, Disney-style. It's no David Attenborough but flamingos are charming under any circumstance.' |
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Total Film - Mark Samuels | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'this elegant doc does for flamingos what March Of The Penguins did for their Antarctic counterparts' |
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The Sunday Times - Edward Porter | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'The scenes of adult flamingos standing against the backdrop of the lake's flat, pale-blue surface might have been designed by Pixar. It's a pity that the commentary is such a terrible shade of purple.' |
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The Daily Mail - Chris Tookey | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'Beautiful images, shame about the commentary' |
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The Guardian - Xan Brooks | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'the plumage is pink and the prose is purple in this eye-catching Disney documentary ' |
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