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

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

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

| Mar 20, 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

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

[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

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