The biology is fascinating, but Schwartzberg's experts and enthusiasts are positively evangelical when it comes to the potential of fungi in medicine, pest-control, oil spill clean-ups and, of course, psychedelic experiences. It's all quite a trip.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 2, 2021

It may be a fairly simple specimen as far as documentaries go, but this tribute to mushrooms and mould soon grew on me.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 9, 2020

The liberal use of speeded-up footage of growth and decay is unfailingly spectacular, while Stamets and fellow interviewees have a gift for a memorable turn of phrase.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2020

fascinating, educational and entertaining.

| Nov 4, 2020

One of the most positive and hopeful documentaries in years, this lean, beautiful, entertaining mushroom movie suggests that the answers to many of our problems could grow naturally and abundantly.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 27, 2020

Louie Schwartzberg's documentary is a dreamy, informative, and hopeful dive into the world of mushrooms and fungi

| Mar 20, 2020

[The film seeks] to reshape our relationship with mushrooms and our western notion of fearing their power. [Reducing] the stigma surrounding the subject may save your life.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 15, 2020

But visual affectations aside, Fantastic Fungi is an engaging look at the scope of an organism that is so much more than a pizza topping or an ingredient in beef stroganoff.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 5, 2019

If [fungus] doesn't sound beautiful, you haven't reckoned with the amazing time-lapse photography director Louie Schwartzberg and his team has shot and collected here.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 15, 2019

I don't think I have to tell people what mushrooms can do, but this movie is set out to be a mind-blowing trip about the world of fungi.

| Oct 28, 2019

Fantastic Fungi is never uninteresting, and often startling in the natural beauty it reveals.

| Oct 25, 2019

Magic mushrooms, be my guide.

| Oct 25, 2019

[I]t edges a little too close to being a commercial, but that's a nitpick when the totality of "Fantastic Fungi" is so entertaining, informative and appealingly hopeful about the hard-working cure-all for our ailing world lying beneath our feet.

| Oct 24, 2019

Chances are you'll never look at a mushroom in the same way again.

| Oct 18, 2019

The documentary's true stars are the fungi themselves, especially as depicted through Schwartzberg's gorgeous time-lapse photography.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 17, 2019

Using time-lapse macro cinematography, Fantastic Fungi is simply mesmerizing, captivating you, as you find yourself forgetting to breathe.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 16, 2019

Fascinating, informative, educational and totally entertaining.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 15, 2019

One of the year's most mind-blowing, soul-cleansing and yes, immensely entertaining triumphs.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 11, 2019

Louie Schwartzberg's lightly informative, delightfully kooky documentary, "Fantastic Fungi," offers nothing less than a model for planetary survival.

| Oct 10, 2019

Eye-opening eye candy.

| Oct 8, 2019