The New Yorker's David Remnick reviewed "An Inconvenient Truth" online April 17, 2006. The film is focused on former vice president Al Gore's lecture circuit to raise awareness of global warming.
Remnick thought it strong on message though weak on entertainment, saying, "as a means of education, 'An Inconvenient Truth' is a brilliantly lucid, often riveting attempt to warn Americans off our hellbent path to global suicide. 'An Inconvenient Truth' is not the most entertaining film of the year. But it might be the most important." The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town: "Ozone Man"
He also shares some thoughts about comparison between Gore, who held the first congressional hearing on global warming 26 years ago, and President George W. Bush, who Remnick says "has made fantasy a guide to policy."
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