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Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2021

If you care about animal rights or love amazing underwater footage (guilty on both counts!) Sharkwater Extinction is a must-see.

Full Review | Dec 19, 2019

Footage of him being at one with the creatures and seascapes he lived and fought for are as a profoundly inspiring as anything he had ever shot for the cause of shark conservation.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 17, 2019

An important film with a tragic end, it is presented beautifully and should have a lasting impact.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2019

Rob Stewart's last dive in Sharkwater Extinction is a fitting tribute to his legacy.

Full Review | May 24, 2019

The film has a globe-trotting secret agent vibe; James Bond reimagined as mellow Canadian. When it comes to documentary footage, real life rarely looks so thrilling.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 6, 2019

Mostly the documentary, which was finished by the Icelandic-Canadian film-maker Sturla Gunnarsson, leaves you with a profound sense of a life cut short and a mission incomplete.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 22, 2019

It's a documentary with real bite, and a moving, fitting and important memorial to a dedicated documentary-maker.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 22, 2019

It's powerful stuff, in places.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 22, 2019

The late Rob Stewart's activist documentary Sharkwater Extinction is an urgent and moving plea for action against the illegal trade.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 21, 2019

Sharkwater Extinction isn't just out to make you feel bad, though, it's cannily also out to entertain.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 20, 2019

A fitting testament to a man who has dedicated his life to the preservation of these wildly misunderstood creatures.

Full Review | Mar 18, 2019

The film is so effective at generating outrage that one wishes it had taken a few steps back sometimes, to put more context around the offenses and crimes that it shows us.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 4, 2019

Rob Stewart literally gave his life for Sharkwater Extinction. From the beginning, you see his passion for sharks and his dedication to saving them.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 2, 2019

An alarming, illuminating and emotionally gripping exposé. Forget about Captain Marvel and watch this powerful doc about the quest of a real-life hero, Rob Stewart, instead.

Full Review | Original Score: 9.5/10 | Mar 1, 2019

[Stewart's] passionate documentary, boasting stirring underwater photography and an equally poignant Jonathan Goldsmith score, speaks urgently on his behalf.

Full Review | Feb 28, 2019

Sharkwater Extinction serves as a fitting cinematic tribute informing us that while progress has been made, much more work needs to be done.

Full Review | Feb 28, 2019

Stewart... reveals a cruel market in which tens of millions of sharks are caught every year, their fins cut off and their bodies thrown back in the water to die.

Full Review | Feb 28, 2019

A testament to [filmmaker Rob] Stewart's spirit as an environmentalist and activist.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Feb 1, 2019

A plea for transparency and conservation whose gorgeous 4K cinematography should make it an enticing proposition for nonfiction cinephiles and activists alike.

Full Review | Jan 31, 2019