“Spotlights the pain and triumph... a coda to Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer... an ambitious, feature-length people’s history.” - The Guardian

"A patient, rigorous road trip across a continent and its buried subterranean secrets. An epic journey in memorializing topography of stolen lands… A filmmaker who is not afraid to do the hard detective work and gather evidence, with rare formal economy."‍ ‍- Visions du Réel Awards

"Brilliantly conveyed… maintains a crescendo of urgency" - International Cinephile Society

"Unflinching and prosecutorial" - Film Fest Report

“Profoundly unsettling… positively alive” - Mubi Notebook

“Revelatory” - Moveable Fest

“Captivating” - Film Carnage

“Paints a powerful testimony… with an entropy that’s hard to shake” - Deadline

“A gripping radioactive travelogue.” - Labocine, Science New Wave

"A point on a map with the force of a gunshot" - Letterboxd

“One of the most thought-provoking, stylistically innovative, and balanced documentaries in recent years to tackle complex issues around environmental justice, nuclear policy, and community voice.. received with acute historical curiosity and deep artistic appreciation.” - EMRO

“A timely reminder that people power is a force to be reckoned with." - Film Forward

“Carter asks us to look again at everything that disappears when a map becomes too abstract. A river, a graveyard, a ranch, a fishing ground, a church, a treaty, a family story. Government planning needs lines on paper. TO USE A MOUNTAIN keeps returning to the lives underneath them.” - Overly Honest Movie Reviews