It is Herzog’s simultaneous exhibition of curiosity, awe, and irreverence in the face of the digitally connected world that makes Lo and Behold a unique treatment of its subject that is not to be missed.

| Dec 1, 2023

...a purely bathetic argument, with Herzog’s off-screen questions coming off as those of a very clumsy leading prosecutor...

| Jan 18, 2023

Herzog's humanist approach to the documentary asks a lot of questions, and instead of providing answers, he invokes a desire to discuss these ideas on our own.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 11, 2022

Thoroughly comprehensive and often humorous meditation on our connected world, Lo and Behold is yet another masterwork by a master chronicler of human experience.

| Jul 17, 2020

As in many of his other films, the subject matter is paradoxically both crucial and incidental: Lo and Behold is a film about the internet in the same way that Fitzcarraldo is about an opera house, or Grizzly Man is about some guy who really liked bears.

| Feb 4, 2020

Lo and Behold presents an excellent start of a conversation, but...you won't be getting any answers here.

| Original Score: 2.75/5 | Dec 7, 2019

It's clever and funny in parts, and there's plenty of food for thought, but it's also pretty scary by the end of it.

| Oct 23, 2019

There is poetry in that, and it's not lost on scientist Leonard Kleinrock, who recounts the story in Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World.

| Aug 5, 2019

Not [Werner Herzo's] best but he's engaging enough to make it a fun watch.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 11, 2019

It's hard not to get a little incredulous when Herzog waxes all end-of-days about soccer-playing trash cans, or when he lingers with horror on an extremely frail robot unscrewing an empty jar ("Soon it vill be unscrewing youuuuu," he seems to whisper).

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 31, 2019

The resultant film is an exhilarating, fascinating, and somewhat terrifying meditation on the consequences of connection.

| Mar 15, 2019

Although far from perfect, this fragmented, curious and cautious tale of our connected world makes for essential viewing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 14, 2019

The internet has fundamentally changed the lives of every single person on the Earth, and such a seismic shift in how people live their lives fascinates Herzog, and we're lucky enough that he wishes to share his fascination with the rest of us.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 1, 2018

Despite being beautifully shot, it's not one of the director's best. Herzog should have understood that to the new god he's trying to uncover, tweeting and praying are the same thing.

| Aug 22, 2018

If Lo and Behold lacks the otherworldly strangeness of Herzog's best documentaries, it remains slyly unsettling for other reasons... Herzog gleefully considers a future dystopia caused by our over-reliance on the web.

| Aug 22, 2018

Lo and Behold seems to be stoking fears that our tools are evolving beyond our capacity to control them, which offers an intriguing twist on his usual theme of the indifference of nature.

| Jul 9, 2018

Lo and Behold makes sure to inextricably tie utopian goals to darker, more deadly possible outcomes. But the paradox is that the film is strangely inspiring even in its more alarming moments.

| Jan 9, 2018

The joys and sorrows evoked by one of the greatest inventions of all time.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 13, 2017

Lo and Behold, a geek flick, approaches incomprehensibility at times for the un-nerdy, but it raises good questions.

| Aug 29, 2017

It's as if [Herzog] wants to understand how life works while harboring a deep-seated realization that it's all just a horrible mistake.

| Aug 16, 2017