Has there ever been a good movie about climate change?
The Day After Tomorrow, from the filmmakers behind Independence Day, was hokey disaster schlock; Don't Look Up, from the director of The Big Short, was a relentlessly cringey metaphor movie; the little-seen How To Blow Up a Pipeline was somewhat better, but its intendedly sympathetic tale of climate radicalism was an own goal that inadvertently indicted its activist-terrorists as neurotic whack jobs. Interstellar and Project Hail Mary are much better films by any measure, but their status as "climate cinema" is at least arguable. And they are, rather notably, about the importance and vitality of risk taking and human ingenuity in the face of civilizational challenges, not pious lectures about consumption, capitalism, and environmental doom. Smug, self-satisfied lectures about human depravity generally don't make for great movies.
