The vulnerability on display is so raw and beautiful, you almost feel compelled to turn away.

| Jun 3, 2020

It is clear from watching Leaning Into the Wind that, for Goldsworthy, the labor, the action is as much a pleasure as the concept or the end result.

| Jan 16, 2020

Goldsworthy's art is driven by an awareness of instability and mortality, which makes it a profound celebration of the present, of life.

| Jan 8, 2019

Leaning into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy>, treads much of the same ground [as the first], but the environment and mankind's relationship to it has changed a lot since 2001.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 22, 2018

It's more naturalistic than its predecessor, feeling at times like a memoir or a reassessment by a man reaching the autumnal years of his career.

| Oct 30, 2018

There is something almost pagan to the earth magic of Goldsworthy's work; through his eyes we reconnect with an elemental quality in the world around us that, somewhere along the line, we lost the ability to see.

| Aug 12, 2018

This is a hypnotic and beguiling documentary portrait of the 62-year-old site-specific land artist Andy Goldsworthy... Sit back, relax and, in the most literal way possible, watch an artist at work.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 10, 2018

A friend who watched this with me said that it's the kind of film she'd like to see again when she's dying. That pretty much nails its meditative, melancholy tone...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 10, 2018

The ephemeral work of Scottish-based landscape artist Andy Goldsworthy makes film an ideal medium for documenting it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 9, 2018

...a film that will live on as the only document of some of Goldsworthy's work.

| Original Score: B | Jun 20, 2018

Leaning Into the Wind lets Goldsworthy be Goldsworthy, with no experts or colleagues to contextualize his stuff. Good thing he's such a likable, no-bulls*** fellow.

| May 24, 2018

[Riedelsheimer] catches up with Goldsworthy in Leaning Into the Wind, and finds the soft-spoken sculptor still making sublime works of art out of whatever nature throws at him.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 11, 2018

It's a pleasant, eccentric wander through the artist's undertakings around the world, contrasted with time spent at his home in rural Scotland.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 10, 2018

For many audiences, Riedelsheimer's effort will remain an acquired taste.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 20, 2018

This movie is a feast. Peel your orbs and dig in!

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 30, 2018

It's [Andy] Goldsworthy's version of a snow angel, a simple transitory image that will make you feel oddly happy during its short, earthbound existence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 29, 2018

By the documentary's end, the artist and the filmmaker have drawn you into their own meditative rhythms and philosophy.

| Mar 27, 2018

The best way to experience Leaning into the Wind would seem to be in much the same way Goldsworthy experiences the nature that inspires him. Be an attentive watcher and listener - devoid of expectation.

| Mar 27, 2018

Those that are modest of scale are still grand. ... The modest man finds awe before him and humbly embellishes it.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Mar 22, 2018

Leaning into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy feels like a twilight look at Goldsworthy. That's not to say that the artist's productivity has in any way diminished.

| Mar 22, 2018