The droning narration nearly killed the film for me but others might like it. The images are spectacular, sublime, astonishing and terrifying, and they raise meaty questions.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 25, 2022

...has that same sense of playfulness but also wants to explore [Katia and Maurice's] obsession, their willingness to face danger.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 12, 2022

It succeeds in highlighting this tenet of their work, making it a valuable introduction not just to their unique lives and groundbreaking studies, but also to their own singular artistry.

| Aug 1, 2022

A story of love and discovery told with curiosity and care, Dosa honours her unique subjects — lending tenderness and poetry to the archive footage.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 1, 2022

The film’s approach skirts around the actual science of the Kraffts’ work, but it does explore the psychology of a shared passion...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2022

[Sara Dosa] has crafted a sensitive narration, softly whispered by her fellow film-maker Miranda July, that dares to ask huge questions about love and relationships in the face of imminent death.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2022

A story of romance, between two people, and between the couple and the beautiful and terrible power of nature.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2022

Purely spectacular as it is, Fire of Love is also a riveting film about film: a salute to the power of the Kraffts’ canny, witty images.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 28, 2022

Fire of Love may not make profound sense of this demise, or probe into their relationship much at all, but as a broad-brush rendering of the Kraffts’ lifelong quest, it has a coffee-table allure that’s undeniably ravishing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 28, 2022

A portrait of two people who were equally and obsessively single-minded in their life’s pursuit... that is the heart of Fire of Love.

| Jul 28, 2022

It’s content to nod and stare and keep an admiring distance. With lava flows and ash plumes, that’s an understandable response and works fine. With a pair of individuals as unusual as the Kraffts, it’s not and it doesn’t.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 28, 2022

... This film looks for something romantic, celebrating or consecrating the myth of the Kraffts: they loved each other, they loved volcanoes and it all came together on that terrible day.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 27, 2022

"...archival footage is exciting enough, but editors...make judicious use of split-screen, circular stencils and other visual effects, varying the rhythm just enough to make this world seem even more magical."

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 25, 2022

Dosa’s film is a slick, moving and cutely Herzogian portrait of this loving, monomaniacal couple who straddled the line between the eccentric and the earnest.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2022

The images of walls of fire crashing down with the force of Niagara Falls or exploding into rocks underwater is reason enough to witness Fire Of Love.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 22, 2022

The result is more than a mere nature documentary. It is one of the most moving and mesmerizing films of the year, a meditation on the wonders of nature and human curiosity.

| Jul 21, 2022

The filmmaker isn’t so much interested in telling us about the Kraffts or even about the little-understood science of volcanology, but in creating a low-key twee mood that edges past cute straight into grating.

| Jul 19, 2022

The way Dosa shapes the story, emphasizing the couple’s deep love for each other and their unconventional lives, is what makes “Fire of Love” ... one of the most moving and memorable films of 2022.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 12, 2022

This is one of the most endearing love stories we've seen in film in a long time.

| Jul 11, 2022

It is spectacular. You have to see it in a theater to experience the enormity of it.

| Jul 11, 2022