‘Ice on Fire’ Review: Too Cheery and Too Hopeful

HBO’s Ice on Fire, directed by Leila Conners and produced and narrated by her The 11th Hour collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio, poses a grandiose question: “Can we reverse climate change, or is it too late?”

When taken at face value as a piece of filmmaking, the documentary is profoundly simple. It consists of talking-head interviews crosscut with drone shot…