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MERCHANTS OF DOUBT

Robert Kenner United States, 2014
This is a huge, unwieldy topic, and the filmmakers do an admirable job of condensing their information and making it comprehensible... "Merchants of Doubt' seems to know that there's little chance of changing the minds of people whose profits are tied to the strategy of doubt, or to people who support them for political or ideological reasons. The film is mainly useful as one-stop shopping for the opposition.
March 6, 2015
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The subject of Robert Kenner's documentary Merchants of Doubt is the catastrophe of global climate change, which is engulfing us even faster than predicted. Kenner doesn't waste time proving, in this terse, brilliantly argued movie, that climate change is happening or that our dependence on fossil fuels has a causal relationship to it.
March 5, 2015
In this glossy informational mode of filmmaking, organization is everything, and director Robert Kenner (Food, Inc.) isn't much of a storyteller. Artless and gimmicky, his style is heavy on ironies and analogies—a magic act framing device here, a montage of waffling politicians set to David Bowie's "Changes" there—and short on unifying perspective.
March 5, 2015
An issues documentary that scores its points through a seductive combination of clearly stated arguments and pithy humor... Some of its most fascinating detective work is devoted to piecing together the playbook used by climate-change denialists and other disinformation campaigns, and how it was developed by big tobacco companies to bury or discredit scientific evidence that smoking is unhealthy.
March 3, 2015
Kenner interweaves a stylistic theme of magic and deception throughout. A magician, Jamy Ian Swiss, performs tricks and speaks about the difference between his "honest<" lies and those of the greedy manipulators; on the soundtrack are some fine if a bit obvious standards like "That Old Black Magic." The assemblage is slick, engaging.
October 7, 2014
It's unfortunate that Kenner seems so terrified of ever boring or confusing the viewers he hopes to spur into action with the requisite three minutes of you-can-make-the-change uplift following 90-odd minutes of far more distressing analysis.
September 8, 2014
This may seem like a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't scenario condemning the film to be either ineffective in its straightforwardness or contradictory in its dressed-up presentation of what many will consider unsurprising revelations. It's a tension that Kenner might have resolved by grappling with or at least acknowledging it, but as is it feels like an unaddressed elephant in the room.
September 3, 2014