Chicken pride and genetic engineering are at the heart of this winsome, semi-serious non-mocking documentary about the exacting preparations a very diverse group of chicken-loving yokels undertake for the 2015 Ohio National Poultry Show.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 11, 2017

The viewer becomes less like a chicken competition voyeur and more like a member of the community.

| Original Score: Recommended | Jul 24, 2017

There's much to be said for finding the right stories and subjects, even when they're served up in obvious packaging.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 20, 2017

Here's a documentary worth crowing about.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 17, 2017

It's impossible not to be reminded of [Best In Show] while watching Chicken People ... one of the film's subjects, Brian Caraker, will immediately evoke fond memories of Scott Donlan (John Michael Higgins).

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2017

As well as these homo sapien sorts, it's also worth mentioning that the chickens here are very cute, and display an uncanny knack for parading or even pouting for Haimes' camera that's quite surprising.

| Jul 13, 2017

Chicken People director Nicole Lucas Haimes has found an engaging bunch of obsessives to guide us through the complexities that govern the world of the competitive poultry show.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 13, 2017

The trick is in the tone, which is amused but not derisive, and in the understanding that a film about chickens needs to be a film about people first of all.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 6, 2017

What works so soundly in Chicken People's favour is that it never goes about its business in a condescending way.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 6, 2017

It's jaw dropping at times, the level of obsession exhibited by these chicken people, and illuminating to realise that there is a whole big world - a very big world - full of show chickens and other poultry.

| Jul 2, 2017

It's like Best in Show - for chickens: entertaining, amusing, fascinating and above all, surprising. You'll never look at a chicken the same way again after watching this fascinating documentary

| Jul 2, 2017

As Alfred Hitchcock understood, birds are from a different planet. This light-hearted, warm-hearted documentary shows them in all their glory.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 30, 2017

The beguiling documentary Chicken People proves that truth is not only stranger than fiction, but often more poignant and illuminating as well.

| Oct 6, 2016

If Errol Morris had ever wandered into the world of "competitive poultry," he might have been moved to make a documentary like Chicken People.

| Sep 25, 2016

A delightful documentary about three show chicken breeders whose enthusiasm is wonderful to behold.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 24, 2016

Far more enjoyable and entertaining than one might expect.

| Sep 22, 2016

A fun and at times astonishing film.

| Sep 22, 2016

An illuminating and amusingly entertaining look at the thriving subculture of competitive poultry breeders.

| Jul 2, 2016

The film highlights the competitor's sacrifices - personal and professional - made on behalf of their passion for chickens. All the while, the doc's beautiful and hilarious bird photography captures the heart of what's so special about these animals.

| Mar 22, 2016