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Turtle: The Incredible Journey

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United Kingdom, Austria, Germany · 2009
Rated G · 1h 21m
Director Nick Stringer
Starring Miranda Richardson
Genre Documentary

This documentary follows a little loggerhead turtle as she travels. Born on a beach in Florida, she rides the Gulf Stream up towards the Arctic and across to Africa, and back to the beach where she was born. But the odds are stacked against her; just one in ten thousand turtles survive the journey.

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70

Village Voice by

Turtle still has cinematographer Rory McGuinness's remarkable visuals in its favor, though, and reveals how even innocuous human activites curtail the loggerheads' centuries-in-the-making migration with refreshing subtlty.

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The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt

The loggerhead turtle's journey is indeed incredible. But you would rather the narration, delivered intelligently by Miranda Richardson, didn't feel a need to remind you of this fact so frequently.

50

The New York Times by Manohla Dargis

The loggerhead turtle is a threatened species, and one day all we may have left are its computer-generated analogues. Its fight for existence is plenty dramatic already, and is a story worth telling honestly.

25

Slant Magazine by Nick Schager

Though it boasts its fair share of shots that approximate the turtle's first-person point of view, the film's most dominant presence is its heavy-handed maker.

75

Tampa Bay Times by Steve Persall

The movie seldom bridges the gap between education and entertainment, a trait that made "March of the Penguins" a must-see multiplex experience.

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