“Fascinatingly, the way Cohen, Kos, and Shenk fast forward and rewind through administrations propels the film’s yearning to reach back into time, shake the politicians and industrialists, and maybe change the course of our present.

 

The closeness of these events, whose repercussions we are living (and will continue to live) through, makes “The White House Effect” an infuriating portrait of how inaction has potentially doomed humanity.”