How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Daniel Goldhaber's film wants to do more than just thrill: its thinking about the ethics of violence is rare.

How to Blow Up a Pipeline is as immersive as it is concise -- the group’s hunger to effect change by criminal means is illustrative of a mindset that is already a reality for some. Making such profound shifts engaging and entertaining is impressive.

Whether you approve of the extreme action taken by the octet will depend on how you approach this modest but well-made film.

Potent, powerful and unrelenting, How to Blow Up a Pipeline doesn’t disguise its political agenda, and in an era of wishy-washy bothsiderism, this comes as a much-needed and ideologically meaningful relief.

“How to Blow Up a Pipeline” sucks you in through the scruffy efficiency of its filmmaking and it doesn’t care whether you argue with it or not.

A nervy eco-thriller that doubles as a persuasive piece of activist messaging, Daniel Goldhaber’s film vibrates with urgency.

The environmental thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline is a breathless, roaring film, both in its thrilling scenes of tension and urgent messages surrounding the climate crisis.

It seeks to change the minds of people around the world, whether or not it will do that will ultimately be the legacy of the film and the topic of climate control as a whole.

Goldhaber’s smart and eloquent portrait of the next inevitability in climate justice makes for difficult viewing. It forces us to confront questions that have no easy answers. But more than that, it forces us to realize the alternatives are even worse.

he magnetism of How to Blow Up a Pipeline lies in its straightforward presentation, its relentless forward momentum and its complete absence of worried moralizing.