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To the End

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United States · 2022
1h 43m
Director Rachel Lears
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Genre Documentary

Filmed over four years, this documentary follows the four inspiring women behind the most sweeping climate change legislation in U.S. history: the Green New Deal. Including up-to-the-minute footage that culminates in 2022's landmark climate bill, this film gives audiences a front-seat view of history in the making.

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75

The Playlist by Christian Gallichio

A scattered, occasionally galvanizing, call to arms, To The End paints in broad strokes. Yet, when it lands, which it often does when focused on the sheer doggedness of its protagonists, Lears’ film replicates the simultaneous enthusiasm and indignation that propels these activists to continue working.

70

Variety by Dennis Harvey

To the End keeps its large canvas entertaining and informative. Even so, it preaches enough to the choir that this documentary can hardly serve as an introduction for those belatedly coming to terms with its central issues.

65

TheWrap by Elizabeth Weitzman

One of the subjects of To the End notes that she wants to “speak things into existence.” It’s a painfully poignant wish, representative of the blend of optimism, desperation, and determination that powers the entire film.

70

Paste Magazine by Jacob Oller

Throughout, Lears is all over the place. When To the End focuses on climate change deniers, it can be cathartically searing.

70

The Hollywood Reporter by Leslie Felperin

Due to the fact that the canvas is broader this time around — and the subjects Lears has chosen to focus on don’t have four discreet, parallel narratives that we can see through to the end — there’s inevitably less coherence to this film strictly in terms of storytelling. Instead, each of these women is trying to make a difference in the climate crisis in very specific ways, but for all of them history keeps interfering.

60

Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele

This is a movie that could probably have done with less chronological vérité or media moments and more wide-ranging interviews drawing out observations from Prakash, Gunn-Wright, Rojas and AOC, because whenever we do get to hear them, we can see how smart, interesting and perceptive they are, and why they’re needed for the challenges ahead.

60

The New York Times by Teo Bugbee

Lears clearly feels earnest sympathy for her subjects and passion for their cause, but the film often replicates for viewers the same atmosphere of hopelessness that makes climate activism a hard sell for voters.

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