Human Nature is an elegant, delicate, and beautiful documentary film that couldn’t be more relevant in our new normal.

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

Human Nature is entertaining as well as highly informative, and you might be shocked to find yourself leaving the theater more hopeful than you came in.

| Oct 14, 2020

Human Nature excels if you want to know the details about what goes on in the science labs ... However, the movie falls short if you're the type of person who wants to know how this research is going to apply to the real world.

| Jul 15, 2020

A fascinating, timely look at a breaking technological advancement and a field that has the potential to be hugely important very soon.

| Original Score: B | Jun 25, 2020

Capably elucidates, in quite accessible terms, one of the most important threads in contemporary microbiology while explaining both the promise and the danger it poses.

| Original Score: B | Apr 9, 2020

It is so gratifying and exciting when a documentary filmmaker takes a complex scientific subject and transforms it into an accessible and engaging presentation. That's exactly what director Adam Bolt does.

| Apr 6, 2020

Do we embrace a discovery wielding the promise of curing and preventing cancers and birth defects, or shun it for its ability to rob us of our unique individuality? It's a compelling argument.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 4, 2020

...the equivalent of [a] popular science book, presenting basic knowledge in an attractive package that not only holds the viewer's attention, but helps that knowledge to stick.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 3, 2020

"Human Nature" gives audiences a personal stake in the subject before delving into some pretty serious science, all of which has been thoughtfully organized into an easy-to-follow logical flow.

| Mar 21, 2020

Neatly put together, accessible and smart, Human Nature spends only a small portion of its running time mired in the usual debates, getting beyond them to explore much more interesting areas.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 20, 2020

[A]n intriguing, mind-tingling watch as it tells the underreported story of CRISPR, the microorganism molecular system discovered in the 1980s, which revealed to the scientific world that DNA...

| Mar 19, 2020

I wish there were more of the human element in Human Nature.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 13, 2020

Maybe the best-yet guide for those mystified by CRISPR.

| Mar 12, 2020

Every "Oh wow" in "Human Nature" is matched by an "Oh no" somewhere down the line. Together, these two competing emotions - excitement and unease - make for one pretty fascinating documentary.

| Mar 12, 2020

Far and away the most intelligent, thought-provoking movie of the young year... See it and be amazed.

| Mar 11, 2020

A compelling documentary that asks us to question the essence of what it means to be human.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 4, 2019

The film is at its most intriguing in its earlier half, when it simply takes you through the growing excitement within the scientific community as the reality of CRISPR emerges.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 4, 2019

Bolt is good at keeping the science at a level that is clear and concise. His subjects include a wide range of scientists and bio-engineers working on the front-line of what might be possible, and fully aware of the concerns they must address.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 3, 2019

Exciting, but also scary.

| Nov 5, 2019

An engaging and thought-provoking film, Human Nature is a necessary conversation starter.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 4, 2019