Be Water is more than just a documentary on Bruce Lee...it's an homage to this man's journey in Hollywood and his meteoric rise.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 3, 2021

It's really important to understand why, 45 years ago, this was something that really mattered. I definitely have a better appreciation now than I did before I saw Be Water.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 15, 2021

Director Bao Nguyen elegantly weaves Lee's personal struggle for visibility and reminds up that Bruce Lee's star burned so brightly we still see it today.

| Dec 30, 2020

Certainly a valid take, but Hongkongers may find it strange that only three members of the Hong Kong film industry, including film critic Sam Ho and the late producer Raymond Chow, are among its long list of interviewees.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2020

If you think Lee kicked ass on-screen (which, duh), you may leave this 95-minute exploration even more impressed.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 19, 2020

But the cynical are not the target audience of this exceptional biography, which takes a conventional format and imbues it with its subject's own philosophies as well as timely meditations on race, racism, and how they relate to the American story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 26, 2020

A nimble, nuanced, and at times even poetic documentary about martial arts legend Bruce Lee.

| Jun 23, 2020

Represents a unique way in to the Bruce Lee mythos, both for longtime fans or those new to Lee's work.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 19, 2020

Bao Nguyen's hagiographic tribute to martial arts icon Bruce Lee stretches its loving arms a little too wide, but is still a great history.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 11, 2020

Be Water brings together a wide range of people to build a memorial to a man whose legacy is not limited to his tragically short screen career.

| Jun 11, 2020

For the most part, it's a very entertaining documentary, but one with curious holes in its history.

| Jun 11, 2020

Be Water is an extraordinary portrait of an icon. There may be more intensive and thorough biographies of Bruce Lee out there, but none are as acutely in tune with the man's passion and insight.

| Jun 11, 2020

If you're unfamiliar with Bruce Lee, Be Water is a thorough, even moving account of a man who self-actualized the fame he always envisioned for himself. But the film's attempts to tie Lee to Civil Rights fall short.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 10, 2020

Be Water never forgets Lee's heritage, or stops celebrating it. Even as Lee is described as "East meets West," the documentary never stops pondering the ocean between.

| Original Score: B | Jun 8, 2020

Be Water is, in its own way, as precisely choreographed as Lee's fight sequences, shining a well-deserved light on his brief life but long shadow, as the statues of him around the world attest.

| Jun 8, 2020

Be Water doesn't feel like a sports doc at all; you walk away from it convinced that Bruce Lee was an artist more than anything else.

| Jun 8, 2020

Let Be Water wash over you ... and appreciate the joys of watching the almighty Bruce.

| Jun 7, 2020

Nguyen does an incredible job chronicling Bruce Lee's life and career, weaving in Lee's struggles as a Chinese-American man and the treatment of Asians in the entertainment industry

| Jun 6, 2020

For the curious, it's a fair introduction to the man who became a legend.

| Jun 6, 2020

An introduction to Lee that cherishes him and provides enough clips to satiate those who love his films.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 5, 2020