‘A Statement’ Review: Tom McCarthy’s Talky Climate Crisis Seriocomedy Is Light Entertainment That Hardly Rakes the Muck

‘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

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.

‘A Statement’ Review: Tom McCarthy Examines The Human Problem At The Heart Of A Global Crisis

Perhaps it speaks to a certain lack of human self-awareness that we have clichés about the impossibility of herding cats and other unruly animals, but no equally familiar idiom for attempting the same with human beings. Because anyone who has ever worked in an office understands that the job is usually the easiest part, and the real challenge is managing the people inside it. Tom McCarthy’s dense, intelligent, sharply observed, and ironically ti…

'A Statement' Review: Tom McCarthy's Climate Change Dramedy Is a Period Piece That Slyly Meets Our Moment

New York Film Festival 2026: Paul Giamatti and John Turturro star in an entirely engaging film made from bureaucrats’ transcripts

‘A Statement’ Review: Tom McCarthy’s Talky Climate Crisis Seriocomedy Is Light Entertainment That Hardly Rakes the Muck

Tom McCarthy opens a window onto a climate crisis meeting in 1980 Florida in his new comedy-drama, 'A Statement.' Review.

‘A Statement’ Review: A Top Ensemble Including Paul Rudd, Amy Ryan and John Turturro Breathes Surprising Vitality Into Dry Docu-Drama

Paul Giamatti, Evan Peters, Tatiana Maslany and Jason Clarke also star in Tom McCarthy’s account of a 1980 conference at which a sprawling group of experts is tasked with getting ahead of the climate crisis.

‘A Statement’ Review: Paul Rudd, Paul Giamatti And Superb Ensemble In Tom McCarthy’s Splendid Humanist Look At Climate Change – New York Film Festival

On paper, director Tom McCarthy’s latest film, A Statement might appear to be a dense polemic, hardly the stuff of exciting moviemaking. It centers on a 1980 Florida conference dealing with the effects of Carbon Dioxide emissions on the environment, gathering politicians, academics, scientists and environmentalists from around the U.S. to talk about the subject […]