Gleason is a moving portrait of a remarkable fighter.

| Original Score: B | Aug 10, 2021

It's hard to write about a film without getting emotional and Gleason will pull on every heart string that you possess.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 26, 2020

As one of the most moving documentaries of recent times, Gleason displays humanity in cuttingly stark detail. It finds beauty in the brutality of existence in the face of adversity...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 6, 2019

What sounds like a completely devastating tearjerker is filled with humor thanks to its subjects' candor.

| Nov 28, 2018

Offers a profound examination on faith, forgiveness, marriage and parenthood.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 26, 2018

Gleason manages to instill those triumph-of-the-human-spirit feelings despite, or maybe because of, the unvarnished and uncomfortable look into the life of Gleason and those around him.

| Aug 14, 2017

[The narrative is] condescending and dehumanizing. It's 2015, and we deserve better.

| Jul 12, 2017

With any luck the film will raise awareness for a horrendous disease, and it's well worth a watch for its honest portrayal of a man fighting back against tremendous adversity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 19, 2017

The film-making might not be particularly polished, but the subject matter of this documentary is wrenching.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 19, 2017

The power of Clay Tweel's tear-jerking documentary, based on Gleason's video diaries, comes from the honesty and humour with which Gleason presents the gradual loss of control over his bodily functions.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 2017

A truly humbling portrayal of human courage in the most testing of circumstances, Gleason delivers a seriously potent combination of heartbreak and inspiration.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 17, 2017

Unflinching in its honesty it offers a moving testimonial to an inspirational figure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2017

This moving docu-portrait of former NFL player Steve Gleason's battle with motor neurone disease is as much heartrending home video as it is awareness-raiser.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2017

A moving testament to the courage shown by Gleason and his formidable wife, Michel ...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2017

Confronts ALS with the same courageous pragmatism, gritted teeth and humour as this deeply affecting documentary's leading man.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2017

The film is moving and insightful because it is more concerned with being honest than with being uplifting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 15, 2017

[Gleason] is not simply another inspiring story of one man's valiant fight against disease. In the end, it is real and raw, a true tale carrying its own kind of dignity.

| Mar 15, 2017

Frank, unashamed and bruising.

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

Gleason, needless to say, is not an easy sit.

| Jan 2, 2017

A remarkable, heartrending portrait that showcases the triumph of the human spirit at its most raw.

| Dec 19, 2016