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

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 8, 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

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

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

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

| Sep 19, 2022

“Loving Highsmith” is a well-intentioned effort; a respectable start. But perhaps a more definitive and dimensional documentary — or even narrative feature — about this singularly intriguing talent will still be made.

| Sep 9, 2022

Eva Vitija's documentary is lean and lucid and even at 84 minutes never feels hurried.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 8, 2022

Ultimately, “Loving Highsmith” provides a valuable addition to the larger record of the author’s enigmatic life, rather than a comprehensive chronicle itself.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 7, 2022

Most of her exes’ memories stop short of being psychologically insightful. Strung together, however, these tender confidences shape an outline of a woman who never trusted anyone with her heart.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 1, 2022

Together, Highsmith’s former flames draw a compelling portrait of underground life in the mid 20th century, as we learn how each influenced the author both personally and professionally.

| Sep 1, 2022

The documentary’s mosaic-like construction evokes Highsmith’s unusually complex triangle of literary drive, personal frustrations, and public image.

| Aug 29, 2022

In centering the writer’s sexuality in her lively and captivating documentary Loving Highsmith, filmmaker Eva Vitija does a great service not only to fans of Highsmith’s, but to all of queer history.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 22, 2022

As multilayered as one of the author’s own plots.

| Jun 22, 2022