This Changes Everything

The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young

While the stories the film tells are lively and never uninteresting, they fail to ignite an emotional explosion. The reach is also too broad for a film.

The Guardian by Henry Barnes

A macro argument is being filtered through people’s local concerns, but without getting to know the subjects, you can understand their suffering, but can’t feel it.

The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

Moving, humane and unfailingly polite, This Changes Everything presents a Panglossian view of approaching disaster that (according to the film’s publicity notes) seeks to empower rather than to scare. But we should be scared.

Variety by Joe Leydon

This Changes Everything is genuinely stirring as it details improbable victories and green-economy opportunities.

Entertainment Weekly by Jonathan Dornbush

Yet as Everything moves from nation to nation, the cohesion and potency of its message dissipates.

Los Angeles Times by Michael Rechtshaffen

They may not do enough to alter the climate change film landscape, but Klein and those impassioned protesters provide something that has been in short supply in the predecessors — namely, a modicum of hope for the future.

Village Voice by Simon Abrams

This Changes Everything isn't a game-changer, but it is jarring enough to be scary.