A gorgeous, thoughtful film that is remarkably evenhanded in its treatment of the subject.

Full Review | Sep 22, 2020

Very thought-provoking and worth seeing.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 22, 2020

One can see the hand of coproducer Terrence Malick in this gorgeous, lyrical documentary about ecological destruction in Austin, Texas.

Full Review | Sep 22, 2020

While [director Laura] Dunn's style is closer to Terrence Malick than Paul Thomas Anderson, Bradley becomes a figure as tragic and memorable as the fictional Daniel Plainview in "There Will Be Blood."

Full Review | Mar 5, 2018

It's a beautiful film. . .Go and see it.

Full Review | Aug 22, 2017

This enviro documentary has its pretensions (I could've done without Wendell Berry intoning poetry), but the 30-year drama it describes couldn't be more timely.

Full Review | Aug 22, 2017

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 17, 2011

If The Unforeseen has a fault, it would be a slight lack of focus. A flawed, but beautiful documentary.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 30, 2009

Powerful study of a landmark struggle between environmentalists and real estate developer in Austin, Texas in the early 90s. A parable for our exhausted, consumerist society that is choking itself to death.

Full Review | Jan 23, 2009

The result is an expansive and ambivalent testament to human ingenuity, human intransigence, and nature's endangered yet enduring power to move.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Oct 18, 2008

A thought-provoking documentary that's both informative and strangely poignant--as well as beautifully shot and edited.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jun 20, 2008

By turns rapturously beautiful and unspeakably sad while considering the consequences of unchecked urban sprawl.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 6, 2008

Even if the director eventually hard-pedals her pantheist imagery into cliché, this inconvenient truth is discreet, intimate and regularly surprising.

Full Review | May 2, 2008

Laura Dunn captures the national ecological battle in microcosm...

Full Review | Apr 3, 2008

No one who sees this intriguing documentary will want to argue with reporter Greider when he forcefully insists, "We need a more mature regard for the future." We do indeed.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 14, 2008

[Cinematographer] Daniel has never shot a film for Malick, though you'd hardly guess so, given The Unforeseen's poetic and dreamy shots of nature that, like the images that open the Malick's "The Thin Red Line," hint at an Earthly paradise.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 14, 2008

This one purports to be different by including interviews with the evil, rich developers, but the film is very subtly slanted away from them.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 13, 2008

The Unforeseen is a poetic and high-minded meditation on American developers' manifest destiny and the cancer it introduces into the natural world.

Full Review | Mar 10, 2008