http://tags.library.upenn.edu/tag/NYTimes+documnetary PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/7458 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/7458 June 28, 2006<br />MOVIE REVIEW<br />'Who Killed the Electric Car?': Some Big Reasons the Electric Car Can't Cross the Road<br />By MANOHLA DARGIS<br /><br />A murder mystery, a call to arms and an effective inducement to rage, &quot;Who Killed the Electric Car?&quot; is the latest and one of the more successful additions to the growing ranks of issue-oriented documentaries. Like Al Gore's &quot;Inconvenient Truth&quot; and the better nonfiction inquiries into the war in Iraq, this information-packed history about the effort to introduce &mdash; and keep &mdash; electric vehicles on the road wasn't made to soothe your brow. For the film's director, Chris Paine, the evidence is too appalling and our air too dirty for palliatives.