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

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

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