I am not a scientist. That doesn't feel like it should be a necessary statement at the top of a review of a documentary, however when it is a film about climate change that is being reviewed, it becomes more important. As a non-scientist, I am not in a position to discuss the scientific merits of any claims made by Al Gore or An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. Instead, I can talk about things like the structure of this follow-up to An Inconvenient Truth, the imagery used in it, the story it tells, and the power of the argument to a non-scientist. Some of the elements directors Jon Shenk and Bonni Cohen put forward—like the imagery—are powerful. Other elements—like the storytelling—are not as strong.
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