A Statement review: Star-studded climate change drama is more than just hot air
Academy Award winner Tom McCarthy directs "A Statement," a climate change drama starring Paul Rudd, Paul Giamatti, and more.
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‘Spotlight’ Director Says The Catholic Church Hasn’t Done ‘Enough’ To Protect Children From Sexual Assault 10 Years After Film’s Best Picture Win: ‘Not Until Every Child Is Safe’
Tom McCarthy’s biographical drama “Spotlight” won Best Picture at the Academy Awards in 2016. The film, featuring a stacked ensemble led by Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams and Mark Ruffalo, was widely praised for chronicling the investigative…
Variety•Antonio Ferme4 Oct‘A Statement’ Review: Just What We Need Right Now — Another Movie About Climate Change! But Tom McCarthy’s Historically Based Talkfest Reveals How Much We Knew in 1980
On paper, "A Statement" sounds like an interesting movie, but it’s at once talky and flat, grabby and meandering, impassioned and neutral. It wants to be a "firebrand" docudrama, yet I can’t imagine who the audience is going to be for it.
Variety•Owen Gleiberman4 Oct- neutral toward Tom McCarthy · 72%
‘A Statement’ Review: Paul Rudd, Paul Giamatti And Superb Ensemble In Tom McCarthy’s Splendid Humanist Look At Climate Change – New York Film Festival
On paper, director Tom McCarthy’s latest film, A Statement might appear to be a dense polemic, hardly the stuff of exciting moviemaking.
Deadline•Pete Hammond4 Oct- favorable toward Paul Rudd · 80%
‘A Statement’ Review: A Top Ensemble Including Paul Rudd, Amy Ryan and John Turturro Breathes Surprising Vitality Into Dry Docu-Drama
Paul Giamatti, Evan Peters, Tatiana Maslany and Jason Clarke also star in Tom McCarthy’s account of a 1980 conference at which a sprawling group of experts is tasked with getting ahead of the climate crisis.
The Hollywood Reporter•David Rooney4 Oct- favorable toward Paul Rudd · 86%
Paul Rudd Says He Stopped Bringing His Phone to Film Sets Because He’s ‘Addicted Like Everybody Else’: ‘They’re Facilitating Our Own Destruction’
Paul Rudd plays the moderator of the first-ever meeting dedicated to solving America’s climate crisis in “A Statement,” the latest film from Oscar-winning director Tom McCarthy.
Variety•Antonio Ferme3 Oct- neutral toward Paul Rudd · 98%