All Light, Everywhere succeeds on the basis of Anthony’s editorial choices; the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, which by themselves constitute several chapters or mini-documentaries capable of dropping one’s jar.

| Jul 28, 2023

Anthony brings a lot of intriguing ideas into play about vision, technology, and how the two have tangled in myriad ways throughout the centuries, often with weaponry and state control involved in troubling ways.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 2, 2023

The actual stuff the film sees, however, is pretty interesting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 8, 2022

Combining hallucinatory and often abstract visuals, history, and conventional fly-on-the-wall filmmaking, All Light, Everywhere is a fascinating experiment in documentary form.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 25, 2022

While it doesn’t quite cohere into a neat central thesis, the film did leave me with both the means and the inclination to do some further thinking on the subject.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 24, 2022

A wealth of philosophical statements are banded around the film, in cool, unfeeling voiceover as well as disconnected subtitles.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 21, 2022

While the effort put into research for this documentary is commendable, ultimately the aestheticisation of the information dampens its impact.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 18, 2022

Always mindful about racist American history, Anthony connects the dots to expose the uneasy relationship among technology, commerce, race and power dynamics of the eyes of the beholder. And it's a fascinating one.

| Jan 27, 2022

This film is limited almost exclusively to cameras and their limits. There are far more important, and scary, new worlds of surveillance outside of this narrow frame of reference.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 14, 2022

Anthony finds an upsetting thesis in the violence done by unwanted watching and examines the privacy we give up and the trust we give to those developing our technology.

| Sep 8, 2021

Through all of the themes it juggles, the film never loses sight of the bigger picture-specifically, where does decades of information collected by weaponized cameras go and what it might lead to? Some of the possibilities are chilling and highly logical.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2021

Broad but narrow, specific but all encompassing, personal but private.

| Original Score: 94/100 | Aug 19, 2021

Complicated and nuanced to a degree that actually befits the political debates and social dynamics that it depicts-a profound accomplishment for any American film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 6, 2021

To really live up to its title, the film needed everybody's perspective, and the director admits he failed on some level. But it's a brilliant failure.

| Original Score: 80/100 | Jul 29, 2021

Not a journalistic exploration of a vital issue, but more of a moony rumination celebrating the unknowable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 23, 2021

The film covers quite a lot of ground, to say the least, and yet Anthony ties it all together in ways that not only make it an interesting film, but an essential one.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 22, 2021

Theo Anthony's documentary about the moving image, police body cams and image as evidence is a haunting contemplation that veers into areas of Big Brother, race, social justice and more.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 18, 2021

Offering considerable food for thought...

| Jun 18, 2021

All Light, Everywhere uncovers the limitations of trying to understand the natural order of the world and to predict the future behavior of complex systems.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 18, 2021

All Light, Everywhere gives a broad -- but not essential -- overview of the intersections between video surveillance technology and law enforcement. The documentary can be informative, but it sometimes loses focus and overlooks some major issues.

| Jun 14, 2021