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  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 29 m

Summary What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we'll ever get to build a better world? Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. The film presents seven portraits of communities on the front li...

Directed By: Avi Lewis

Written By: Naomi Klein

  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 29 m

This Changes Everything

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we'll ever get to build a better world? Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. The film presents seven portraits of communities on the front li...

Directed By: Avi Lewis

Written By: Naomi Klein

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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29% Positive
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
59
29% Positive
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71% Mixed
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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70
Oct 1, 2015
This Changes Everything is genuinely stirring as it details improbable victories and green-economy opportunities.
By Joe Leydon FULL REVIEW
67
Oct 15, 2015
Yet as Everything moves from nation to nation, the cohesion and potency of its message dissipates.
By Jonathan Dornbush FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 16, 2015
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.
By Michael Rechtshaffen FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 1, 2015
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.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 29, 2015
This Changes Everything isn't a game-changer, but it is jarring enough to be scary.
By Simon Abrams FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 29, 2015
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.
By Deborah Young FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 29, 2015
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.
By Henry Barnes FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Klein Lewis Productions, Louverture Films
Release Date Oct 2, 2015
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://thischangeseverything.org/
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Awards

CPH:DOX
• 2 Nominations
Cinema Verde Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Docville
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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