‘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

Source: www.variety.com · Section: entertainment-sports · Bias: Right · Published: Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:15:11 GMT

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. My heartless prediction: next to no one.

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The same story across the political spectrum (7 sources)

Center: ‘A Statement’ Review: Paul Rudd, Paul Giamatti And Superb Ensemble In Tom McCarthy’s Splendid Humanist Look At Climate Change – New York Film Festival — deadline.com
Center: ‘A Statement’ Review: Tom McCarthy’s Climate Change Dramedy Is a Period Piece That Slyly Meets Our Moment — www.thewrap.com
Center: ‘A Statement’ Review: A Top Ensemble Including Paul Rudd, Amy Ryan and John Turturro Breathes Surprising Vitality Into Dry Docu-Drama — www.hollywoodreporter.com
Center: Paul Rudd Says He Stopped Bringing His Phone to Film Sets Because He’s ‘Addicted Like Everybody Else’: ‘They’re Facilitating Our Own Destruction’ — www.variety.com
Right: Chris Rock Says ‘Wokeness’ Has Created a Less Forgiving World: ‘We’re in the Old Testament Right Now’ — www.thewrap.com

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