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Review ------ Switch is refreshingly free of hot air. It's almost shocking in the way it sidesteps the kind of issue advocacy made commonplace by filmmakers Michael Moore, Davis Guggenheim and the like. Lynch's film tries (and largely succeeds) in taking a scrupulously neutral tack between extremes... --The Washington Post

Sidestepping the usual eco-docu strategy, Switch takes a far less hysterical route. Lynch's method gives a rational evaluation of where the world is heading. It's considerably more honest, and manages to be quite effective. Tech credits are tops, particularly the seamless editing and the often beautiful photography... --Variety

Tinker takes us along for this beautifully ride, excellent in its details, and mixes a kind of gee-whiz wonderment at the way energy is produced with pithy, on-the-mark observations about the realities of those sources. He foresees the increasing use of renewables, natural and nuclear power in the U.S. But he also offers a sobering forecast of why we're unlikely to shake coal and oil for a long time... --Austin American-Statesman Sidestepping the usual eco-docu strategy, Switch takes a far less hysterical route. Lynch's method gives a rational evaluation of where the world is heading. It's considerably more honest, and manages to be quite effective. Tech credits are tops, particularly the seamless editing and the often beautiful photography... --Variety Tinker takes us along for this beautifully ride, excellent in its details, and mixes a kind of gee-whiz wonderment at the way energy is produced with pithy, on-the-mark observations about the realities of those sources. He foresees the increasing use of renewables, natural and nuclear power in the U.S. But he also offers a sobering forecast of why we're unlikely to shake coal and oil for a long time... --Austin American-Statesman