Movie Review: 'Encounters at the End of the World'

Its title sounds like a cross between Steven Spielberg and Orson Welles, and, indeed, it contains fantastical, sci-fi-like elements aplenty, but "Encounters at the End of the World" is just a simple, straightforward documentary.

Well, not "just" -- and maybe not so simple. How could it be, when its director-narrator is Werner Herzog, a man who unfailingly warms -- or in this case, cools -- to his esoteric subject. The German master ("Fitzcarraldo," "Grizzly Man") has made 40 films over four decades. With this one, he becomes the first director to shoot a film on all seven continents...[Post-Gazette]