Nature has a way of aligning us all, and Jane Goodall knew it. This is one of the year's best films.

| Original Score: A | Jul 1, 2024

Jane is a small pleasure, but its emotional impact is far more substantial than its modest premise would presuppose.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 1, 2020

Jane is easily one of the finest documentaries of the year and should be a major contender come awards season.

| May 19, 2020

Edited together with a fluidity and polish rare even in the best documentary films.

| Mar 23, 2020

Here's a family-friendly winner of a film...

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 27, 2020

Thrilling. Heartbreaking. Incandescently beautiful.

| Jan 8, 2020

The beautiful vintage footage and Phillip Glass' striving, uplifting score make the film a pleasant journey as well as a delightful, insightful one.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 26, 2019

...the believed-lost footage of a 26-year-old Goodall from the early 1960s is illuminating from beginning to end and a technicolour dream.

| Apr 16, 2019

Smartly told and beautifully composed.

| Jan 19, 2019

[Hers] is a life that inspires generations-one of perseverance, intelligence, and empathy against all odds.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 10, 2018

A moving but flawed piece of documentary that could stand to fill in a few blanks, Jane is bolstered by a powerful score, sharp editing and an abundance of fascinating archive footage.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 25, 2018

Those who see Jane will no doubt walk away with newfound respect and admiration for her unassuming feminism and her contribution to the world.

| Aug 6, 2018

An enthralling watch from start to finish.

| Jul 31, 2018

Yet it didn't provide the big humbling rush of nature worship it promised, not least because Philip Glass's pushy score left no space for quiet contemplation.

| Mar 19, 2018

Watching Jane was like stepping back in time to a moment at which Homo sapiens learned something new and vital about its own family - the great apes. It was extraordinary.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 13, 2018

... a beautiful piece of work.

| Mar 12, 2018

The assured storytelling unfolds with acts of both creation and loss, as Goodall and von Lawick raise their infant son in the national park where they work while a polio epidemic ravages the chimpanzee population.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 9, 2018

This is documentary as beguiling storytelling.

| Mar 9, 2018

A riveting, inspiring, and moving true wonder woman story about an icon of primatology and feminism and world peace.

| Feb 9, 2018

Pioneering primatologist Jane Goodall has been the subject of several documentaries throughout her long, prominent and unique career. However, this new one from National Geographic's prestige production unit is clearly the best to date.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 31, 2018