This Changes Everything
Documentary
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2015
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Based on Naomi Klein's book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, a look at how people in various communities around the world play a role in the ongoing climate change debate and how they're affecting change in trying to prevent the environmental destruction of our planet.
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Rated:
NOT RATED
Runtime:
89 min
Release date:
10 Sep 2015
Country:
US, CA
Languages:
Cree, Telugu, Chinese, Greek (modern), English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 win & 4 nominations.
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Despite Everything's desire to distance itself from other climate change ventures, these early stories are perhaps the most conventionally structured for a documentary, and also the most engaging.
– Jonathon Dornbush,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Oct 2015
fresh:
Klein and those impassioned protesters provide something that has been in short supply in the predecessors - namely, a modicum of hope for the future.
– Michael Rechtshaffen,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Oct 2015
fresh:
The evenly wrought film accessibly argues that runaway capitalism and short-term economic growth at all costs has caused an imminent catastrophe, and that global warming is the hot-foot instigator for a radical change in economic thinking.
– Brad Wheeler,
Globe and Mail,
9 Oct 2015
fresh:
It distinguishes itself among similar planet-loving docs by showing evidence there is hope in what can often seem an overwhelming bleak task to begin repairs to an industrial-damaged world.
– Linda Barnard,
Toronto Star,
8 Oct 2015
rotten:
If, as many seem to believe, we are presiding over the possible annihilation of our species, then maybe we need a kick in the pants more than a reassuring hug.
– Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
1 Oct 2015