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‘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: 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 […].

Paul Rudd Says He Stopped Bringing His Phone to Film Sets Because He’s ‘Addicted Like Everybody Else’: ‘They’re Facilitating Our Own Destruction’. Paul Rudd plays the moderator of the first-ever meeting dedicated to solving America’s climate crisis in “A Statement,” the latest film from Oscar-winning director Tom McCarthy. Set at a Florida beachside resort in 1980, the film follows 20 experts who spend a weekend in a conference room and — analogous to “12 Angry Men” — […].