An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: July 28, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
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88
Chicago TribuneKatie WalshAug 10, 2017
Somehow, An Inconvenient Sequel is empowering, not depressing. Read full review
83
The Film StageDan MeccaJan 21, 2017
All in all, it’s bracingly effective and not altogether dire. Read full review
80
The GuardianMike McCahillAug 24, 2017
Railing against rising tides, Gore emerges as a cannier performer and a more compelling subject than he was in 2006; a message that sounded critical then has become no less urgent with time. Read full review
80
Total FilmJosh WinningAug 15, 2017
Never preachy, always engaging, Al’s follow-up to his 2006 Oscar-winner paints a startling picture of a world in crisis. Read full review
80
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergJul 27, 2017
In a summer movie landscape with Spider-Man, a simian army waging further battle for the planet and Charlize Theron as a sexy Cold War-era superspy, it says something that one of the most compelling characters is Al Gore. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranJul 27, 2017
The film is at its best following the former vice president as he spans the Earth both gathering evidence and promoting his message. Read full review
80
We Got This CoveredJordan RuimyJan 26, 2017
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power is an important and relevant worldwide look at the environmental crisis. Read full review
80
Screen DailyAnthony KaufmanJan 21, 2017
Though audiences may have heard this one before, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power preaches effectively to its choir, with a decade of fresh data and increasing cataclysms...to persuasively make its case. Read full review
80
VarietyOwen GleibermanJan 21, 2017
Gore has been talking up this issue for 25 years now, and as the film makes clear, he isn’t tired of talking. You feel he’s got enough wind to power another sequel. What’s extraordinary is that this one, after a decade of global-warming fatigue, feels as vital as it does. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreAug 6, 2017
It’s never self-congratulatory, rarely “I told you so,” although if anybody on Planet Earth is entitled to owning that phrase it’s Al Gore. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperAug 3, 2017
Directed in disjointed and sometimes unfocused fashion by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power is nonetheless worth a viewing, if only for the continued, irrefutable, scientifically sound reminders that humankind continues to harm the planet in shocking and sobering ways. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleAug 2, 2017
It’s giving away nothing to say that the answers here are a mix of good news and bad news. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyAug 2, 2017
The movie reaches its emotional climax with the signing of the accords. But even under the best of circumstances, climate change offers no quick solutions. “This is a mission I have dedicated myself to,” Gore says, a mission that remains “a constant struggle between hope and despair.” Read full review
75
The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenAug 2, 2017
An Inconvenient Sequel is both a rebuttal and a rebuke to the voices who vociferously disparage him and his cause. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerJul 28, 2017
The documentary is like the cinematic equivalent of humblebragging. But it does provide one great “told you so” moment. Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter TraversJul 27, 2017
Truth to Power sprawls when it most needs to focus, diluting the power punch of the original with too much bobbing and weaving. But it's hard to argue that the crusade isn't still vital. Read full review
75
IndieWireEric KohnJan 21, 2017
The filmmakers manage to improve on the limitations of the original by showing more of Gore’s resilience in the field. Read full review
75
ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerJan 21, 2017
It’s less an attack on big business (though such sentiments are certainly present) than a call for a rational assessment of proven facts. If it does occasionally dabble in hero worship of its subject, it also makes the effective case that somebody has to keep showing up when nobody else can be bothered. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaAug 7, 2017
As a character study, it’s highly successful, but given the context it will be watched in — albeit not quite as oxygen-deprived and manic as Sundance — it feels a little too pat. Read full review
70
IGNJosh LasserAug 3, 2017
While not as powerful as its predecessor, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power is a compelling documentary. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicKerry LengelAug 3, 2017
The sequel is even more “all about Al,” but ironically, with any question of another electoral run put to rest, the results work better as cinema. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJul 27, 2017
Eleven years after An Inconvenient Truth Mr. Gore remains a prodigy of hope, with energy that seems endlessly renewable. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeJan 21, 2017
The movie, in which Shenk and Cohen (makers of the standout eco-doc The Island President) take the reins ably from Davis Guggenheim, hardly can hope to create the sensation of its Oscar-winning predecessor. But it finds plenty to add, both in cementing the urgency of Gore's message and in finding cause for hope. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAug 9, 2017
An Inconvenient Sequel does indeed speak truth to power, but the elephant in the room remains: The very powerful rarely pay attention to the utter truth. Read full review
65
TheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanJul 26, 2017
There is no doubt that Gore has a life-altering passion; he just doesn’t possess the personality required to express it cinematically. Read full review
63
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanAug 3, 2017
The new documentary about Al Gore’s continued climate crusade lacks urgency. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comScout TafoyaJul 28, 2017
The best An Inconvenient Sequel can offer is the formidable image of Gore, nearly 70, refusing to stand down. It's inspiring, but even the filmmakers have to know it's not enough. I was moved by the movie, and then I stepped outside and looked at my phone. Read full review
63
The VergeChris PlanteJan 22, 2017
As a documentary about the loneliness of would-be-President Gore, An Inconvenient Sequel is awkwardly engrossing. Read full review
60
The TelegraphRobbie CollinAug 24, 2017
Its star isn’t exactly overburdened with Hollywood charisma, and its various argumentative manoeuvres are pulled off with the grace of a reversing bin lorry. But it still politely seizes you by the lapels, makes its case with range and precision, and sends you home with a carbon-neutral fire in your chest. Read full review
60
EmpireIan FreerAug 14, 2017
Like many sequels, Truth To Power is bigger but messier than its predecessor. While it doesn’t quite deliver the oomph of the original, it is still a timely, persuasive wake-up call. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfFeb 2, 2017
Alas, this is a film that builds to a backroom compromise on carbon emissions, not the most thrilling of dramatic structures. The serious issue of global warming won’t be minimized by a mediocre documentary, but it has yet to find a filmmaker inflamed with rage and visual passion. Read full review
60
Village VoiceBilge EbiriJan 21, 2017
It feels like a rushed journey through a vital, many-pronged debate. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Jul 25, 2017
They’ve chased a valuable science lesson with something that comes closer, occasionally, to a celebrity profile. Read full review
50
Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonAug 3, 2017
Gore is his own form of renewable energy. He is tireless, never wavers in his devotion to his crusade — an apt term in “Truth to Power,” which invokes Pope Francis and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The movie’s money line has Gore (he repeats it in virtually every interview) invoking the Book of Revelation. Read full review
50
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlJul 27, 2017
The film creates a conflicting impression: Here’s a committed wonk and public servant seizing every opportunity he can to combat what appears to be the greatest danger facing our planet. But here’s also a man who would sign off on a movie that so often sets aside his message so that we might admire him and his work. Read full review
40
The GuardianJordan HoffmanJan 21, 2017
An Inconvenient Sequel is more a portrait of Gore than a call to arms. It ends with a sort of forced positivity, much of which is recycled directly from the first movie: political change is hard, but we can do it, morality demands it. Read full review
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