The movie is a genuine inquiry into how animals experience the world.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2024

Startling in its intimacy and measured in its pacing, Gunda is a one-of-a-kind nature documentary which serves as an abrupt but much-needed wake-up call to humanity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 11, 2024

Kossakovsky is respectful and achieves a harmonious and elegant narration. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2022

There’s no music to guide our emotions or narration to explain what we’re seeing. It doesn’t frame or stealthily edit scenes for dramatic effect. Instead “Gunda” asks its audience to observe, absorb, and ponder.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 21, 2022

An experimental documentary of technological high caliber and quality images... [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 11, 2022

It takes its cues from George Orwell's Animal Farm and the American film Babe.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 23, 2021

It is too beautiful and too wondrous to be hemmed in by any single agenda. Rather, it's a portrait of life itself, in all of its pain and joy, suffering and pleasure.

| Nov 9, 2021

While 'Gunda's' ambitions are to steer people away from consuming meat, it also possesses a very simple hypnotic quality: It's fascinating to watch animals be animals.

| Sep 13, 2021

This is a film that demands not just concentrated looking but a kind of cinematic surrender. You don't just watch Gunda; you give yourself over to it.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 13, 2021

Kossakovsky's mesmerizing, gorgeous documentary about the life of a mother pig and her babies on an unnamed farm somewhere in the world serves as a bracing corrective to the way animals are usually portrayed on film.

| Aug 11, 2021

Brilliantly shot and impossibly moving, this one-of-a-kind documentary handily elevates both farm animals and filmmaking. You don't say that every day.

| Jul 16, 2021

It's stunning work, as quiet and powerful as a film gets.

| Jul 9, 2021

Gunda is quiet yet undeniably engrossing, and manages to translate the inner workings of animals in a deeply human way.

| Jun 23, 2021

There is plenty of time to ponder the morality of our dominion over the beasts.A highly original, singularly beautiful film.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 15, 2021

Disconcerting, but also strangely comforting - and actually downright moving in its charm and simplicity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 11, 2021

An intimate and exquisitely filmed story. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 10, 2021

The long-takes prove hypnotic, inducing a trance-like viewing, transported by the piglets' endearing wonderment at the unfolding world.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2021

Full of fascinating behavioural insights and moments that are both hilarious and adorable, this studied treatise on the personality and emotionality of domestic animals should provide plentiful food for thought.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2021

It's a must-watch but you'll probably never eat bacon again.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 7, 2021

To call the film meditative would be to undersell Kosakovskiy's instinct for drama and tension.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 6, 2021