Clever, sensitive, and thematically rich, it is an impressive juggling act of dot connecting that does justice and more to the person and movements it is championing.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 15, 2024

There’s a lot of information and story in All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, but it never feels heavy, dull, or long-winded.

| Mar 13, 2024

Poitras never shoots Goldin in a way that lionizes her or gives her the stature of a warrior queen... She puts her camera squarely in front of Goldin and shows her at work. In the process, she makes a stupendous work of her own.

| Sep 26, 2023

As profoundly and poignantly as any of the photographs the subject would go on to make.

| Jul 27, 2023

The Golden Lion-winning All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is a ravishing documentary that has Laura Poitras delivering her most fascinating and emotional work.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 19, 2023

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is a ferocious and prismatic piece of work.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 7, 2023

Poitras avoids melodrama, catharsis and sensationalism in All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. The result is acutely devastating.

| Jun 13, 2023

Artist Nan Goldin’s activism in holding the Sackler family accountable for the opioid crisis is seen as a natural extension of her rebellious, freely lived and proudly messy life in Laura Poitras’ well-structured, powerful documentary.

| Jun 6, 2023

A personal view of a mass disaster. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2023

If Goldin (or her work) doesn’t appeal to you, well, a good deal of this movie won’t either. Then again, if her style of activist/artist hits a sweet spot, then All the Beauty and the Bloodshed may strike you as both eye opening and admirably outraged.

| Mar 29, 2023

The documentary is the great American story of the outsiders coming in and rising up.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Mar 20, 2023

The manner in which Poitras structures and presents the many layers of Nan’s story is simply extraordinary, a portrait of advocacy like no other.

| Mar 20, 2023

If this was a straight documentary on [Nan Goldin] and her art, then it would be incredible, but where it gets really interesting... is the art collective mission to bring down [The Sackler family] name [from museums]

| Mar 20, 2023

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an astonishing documentary and one that should be screened in every cinema and university across the world. It should be mandatory viewing for those old enough to watch it.

| Mar 17, 2023

Goldin narrates all of it in a quiet, considered, uninflected voice, a writerly style stitching together distressing tableaus as they are turned into art.

| Mar 16, 2023

Goldin proves to be a true experimenter and survivor of our world.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 14, 2023

This is a remarkable doco about an individual, and the others who've cast their shadows upon her, as well as a stirring account of the clash between individuals and power — Poitras' frequent topic of interest, after all.

| Mar 14, 2023

... A splendid celebration of art as a form of vital combat from the beauty and pain of otherness. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2023

Sure, the director has made a commendable work, but I don't feel any sympathy or emotional closeness with Nan Goldin and her troubled existence. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 10, 2023

It is Goldin’s courage and determination that make her an effective activist, and her empathetic eye that makes her a great artist.

| Mar 10, 2023