What this documentary does is take us into the idiosyncratic mind of the writer...

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 8, 2023

It’s like looking at a jigsaw with every third piece missing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 18, 2023

Cleverly augmented with voiceovers from her diary entries, this is an engaging portrait of how Highsmith's love for a series of women fuelled her books.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 18, 2023

A thorough, measured, often illuminating portrait, aided by readings from Highsmith’s unpublished diaries and interviews with her ex-lovers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2023

Looking at Highsmith’s life more generally, the film glosses over her antisemitism, but its chosen anecdotes are full of interest.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2023

But it’s the wilful refusal to engage with Highsmith’s long-nurtured bigotry — she famously dismissed the Holocaust as a failure for not murdering enough Jews — that ultimately galls.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 14, 2023

It is too much in love with its subject to give us a full understanding of what made her tick.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 14, 2023

Despite an engaging start this portrait glosses over the writer’s ugly views, given only brief mention here.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 13, 2023

The more you already know about Highsmith, the more you will note the omissions but it’s still interesting because she was so interesting.

| Apr 13, 2023

Lays bare the turmoil bubbling beneath Highsmith’s cold image, both enriching and deepening our understanding of her fiction.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 13, 2023

It is basically droningly reverent, as well as sometimes bland and naive.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 11, 2023

Without giving us any of the wider, darker context of its subject, Loving Highsmith doesn't do much more than fangirl its subject, making it ultimately an entertaining and gayness-affirming hagiography of a monster.

| Apr 10, 2023

Loving Highsmith isn’t a straightforward biographical film, but more of a mood piece that doles out nuggets of information within a visual context that’s more about creating a vibe that reporting facts and details.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 8, 2022

It’s not a definitive documentary, but it is more insightful, I think, than many such docu-portraits.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 18, 2022

"Loving Highsmith" might not bring viewers any closer to understanding Patricia Highsmith, but perhaps it’s appropriate that she remains in many ways enigmatic.

| Nov 14, 2022

While the documentary offers a few delicate glimpses of a self the writer did not openly share during her 74-year lifetime... it falls short of conveying the vital essence of this modern and enigmatic woman of her time.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 13, 2022

Eva Vitija's compelling documentary features candid interviews with family, friends, and former lesbian lovers of author Patricia Highsmith. Clips of the movies adapted from the author’s novels, remind us how much Hollywood embraced her work.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2022

I found it fascinating. A little bit inconclusive and disorganized, but the insights into Highsmith, lesbian culture at that time, and into her writing process was really compelling.

| Sep 19, 2022

A fairly elucidating documentary about lesbian culture in the 1950s.

| Sep 19, 2022

It's a fascinating look at a woman who rightly said she didn't write mysteries but about love.

| Sep 19, 2022