Fresh
Despite Everything's desire to distance itself from other climate change ventures, these early stories are perhaps the most conventionally structured for a documentary, and also the most engaging.
Jonathon Dornbush, Entertainment Weekly
Overview
Based on Naomi Klein's book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, a look at how people in various communities around the world play a role in the ongoing climate change debate and how they're affecting change in trying to prevent the environmental destruction of our planet.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
60%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Klein and those impassioned protesters provide something that has been in short supply in the predecessors - namely, a modicum of hope for the future.
Michael Rechtshaffen, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
The evenly wrought film accessibly argues that runaway capitalism and short-term economic growth at all costs has caused an imminent catastrophe, and that global warming is the hot-foot instigator for a radical change in economic thinking.
Brad Wheeler, Globe and Mail
Fresh
It distinguishes itself among similar planet-loving docs by showing evidence there is hope in what can often seem an overwhelming bleak task to begin repairs to an industrial-damaged world.
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star
Rotten
If, as many seem to believe, we are presiding over the possible annihilation of our species, then maybe we need a kick in the pants more than a reassuring hug.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
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