The Trick review: Climategate drama fails to turn shocking data into tense telly
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The Trick review: Climategate drama fails to turn shocking data into tense telly

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In 2009, in the months before the UN’s Cop 15 climate change conference in Copenhagen, hackers stole emails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. With this year’s Cop 26 conference coming up in Glasgow next month, The Trick is one of a raft of earnest programmes scheduled to remind us of the scale of the problem and the dark forces at work to suppress information. Victoria Hamilton, as Jones’s wife, Ruth, is one of the few characters who gets properly angry at how her husband is being treated.

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