Weekend Movie Forecast: 9 or White On Rice

Documentary No Impact Man covers a year in the life of author Colin Beavan, who got a lot of media attention for his attempt to live for a year with his wife and toddler without having any negative environmental impact—no automated transportation, no electricity, no non-local food, etc. Some, like the New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert, dismissed the project as a counterproductive "eco-stunt," but the film's been relatively well-received by critics. The Onion's Scott Tobias calls it "compelling and suitably exasperating... The film, like Beavan himself, leaves an unholy mess of contradictions in its wake, but most productively, a great deal of those contradictions are our own."