“An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore’s global-warming polemic from 2006, may have won an Academy Award, but it was hardly the best documentary of that year.
When I reviewed it, I called it “a three-star movie about a five-star slide show.” Much like Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, the Oscar was more of a political statement than a meritocratic one.
Now comes “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,” and, putting politics aside, it’s a better film — by half a star.
Of course, you can’t really put politics aside, certainly not with an explicitly political documentary whose hero — and that’s definitely how Gore is portrayed — is a Democratic Party icon and a bête noire to the libertarian right.
The original movie set out to persuade its audience that climate change is real, that it is human-caused, and that political action was urgently needed. And some research suggests it actually succeeded in moving the needle of public opinion.
A decade on, though, it’s not clear how many persuadable fence-sitters are left in America. And so the new film is a full-throated call to action aimed squarely at a progressive audience. Sure, a handful of conservatives will see it — mostly so they can pick it apart on their websites — but “An Inconvenient Sequel” is definitely preaching to the choir. Call it a “lib flick.”
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