All That Breathes instills admiration and wonder while also subtly implicating human beings in a responsibility for the upkeep and furtherance of life.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 30, 2023

All That Breathes presents a poetic, intensely beautiful story so precise that, at times, it feels staged but instead emerges from hours of painstaking care.

| Feb 17, 2023

It soars as high as the birds it depicts, while telling a compassionate story of two Muslim brothers trying to do their part in making the world a better place. It’s astonishing.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 15, 2023

Simple in its slow, calm storytelling, but profound in the philosophical points it raised about how we are all connected in the vast ecosystem.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 9, 2023

In an age when we're constantly reminded of all that's bad, All That Breathes celebrates good things it's easy to forget: the wonder of life, the virtues of compassion and the human capacity to make the world better.

| Feb 9, 2023

These birds are utterly other, while their rescuers represent the best of us.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 8, 2023

Meditative, truthful film-making that deserves to be seen anywhere the human animal coexists with others.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 8, 2023

Sen’s mesmerising masterpiece is also a worrying look at how pollution and overpopulation are placing an intolerable strain on the balance between humans and nature.

| Feb 8, 2023

Although the film’s tone is sometimes quietly apocalyptic, its director Shaunak Sen manages to capture stirring scenes of beauty in slow-motion cityscapes, just as he finds optimism and hope in the diligence of his fraternal subjects.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 4, 2023

“All That Breathes” is the kind of immersive documentary experience other filmmakers, and film lovers, would do well to study.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 2, 2023

ayering urban ecology, spiritual philosophy, politics and distilled character study, All That Breathes is a remarkable, vital work of cinema.

| Dec 14, 2022

A thoughtful, meditative thesis on humanity’s relationship with nature, filmed with the kind of cinematographic beauty most fiction filmmakers can only aspire towards.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 14, 2022

[A] strangely uplifting film, which is more of a meditation on the interconnectedness of life than an assemblage of facts.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 16, 2022

Beautiful cinematography and lyrical score.

| Nov 4, 2022

It occasionally strains. But the basic conflict at play, between the selflessness of these medics, the growing need for their work, and the utter folly of this mission gives it all an urgent undercurrent.

| Oct 31, 2022

Maybe the most beautifully realized documentary in recent memory.

| Oct 28, 2022

All That Breathes blends a verité-style character study with gorgeous nature cinematography while never losing the film’s overall commentary on how man interacts with nature—or merely chooses to destroy it through inaction.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 21, 2022

A subtle, haunting reflection on the meaning of humanity — on the breathtaking kindness and heartbreaking cruelty that define our wounded, intrepid, predatory species.

| Oct 20, 2022

[A] handsomely photographed and pensive documentary.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 17, 2022

This oneiric, rapturous documentary eschews conventional reportage techniques, arguably to its detriment at times.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 14, 2022