Encounters at the End of the World

The Times“One of the year’s best...” As a testament to the questing individuality, boundless curiosity and sheer bloody-minded oddness of Man, you could do worse than leave a copy of this film for them to find...

Guardian“Werner Herzog could be easing into a more mellowed-out late period...” It's a thoroughly intelligent, worthwhile and tremendous-looking film. But where is the dark spark of Herzog magic?...

The Independent“Herzog in awe at life, the universe, eternity itself...” It lacks the focus that made his Grizzly Man so compelling. All the same, you don't want to miss the weird scenes beneath the ice shelf or inside the active volcano, or the incredibly poignant shot of a "deranged" penguin...

The Telegraph“Far-out and unforgettable...” This film is about crazies and restless pioneers in search of new horizons who are tempted to try to tame and domesticate wild nature...

Channel4 Film“Off-road, off his head and on his game. Again...” His approach feels a little scattershot and misses the focus of 'single protagonist' documentaries such as Grizzly Man or Little Dieter Needs To Fly. But it's still all of a piece with Herzog's habitual, intoxicating brand of calm insanity...

The First Post“Not yet reviewed”

National Post“Not yet reviewed”

Little White Lies“Odd mix of black comedy and poignant inquiry...” What really makes the film unique, then, is its cast of bizarre and beguiling characters. If Antarctica is at the bottom of the world, it’s the place where all the people who who’ve fallen through the cracks inevitably collect...

Total Film “A remarkable fistful of oddball loners and obsessives...” Too loose and aimless to sit with Herzog’s best, Encounters drifts along on its filmmaker’s frostbitten humour and his ever-searching eye for weirdness and wonder...

New York Times Movies“Vivid and vague, easy to grasp and somehow beyond reach...” There’s something about Mr. Herzog — including the accidental if now well-practiced comedy that colors even his most dramatic pronouncements — that inevitably keeps his pictures from growing too dark...