Director Lana Wilson captures the isolationism of the psyche as it plays out in Hannah Buck’s spot on editing. The film is reminiscent of the style of documentarian Frederick Wiseman, and that is great praise.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 15, 2025

Look Into My Eyes is challenging on multiple fronts – and fascinating too.

| Jan 13, 2025

What will likely make “Look Into My Eyes” emotionally moving and surprisingly so is Ms. Wilson’s approach to her subjects. She captures them in a strictly observational and almost clinical fashion.

| Jan 9, 2025

Placing an emphasis on human connection, the documentary shows how psychic sessions can become a kind of emotional release for unprocessed grief and trauma.

| Dec 24, 2024

Whether or not you believe these psychics are communing with the dead—or, in one case, with the spirits of still-living animals—the interactions with their clients feel genuinely emotional in a way that is hard to dismiss entirely.

| Dec 20, 2024

Look into My Eyes won’t convince anyone of anything. But the film does suggest that psychic readings may provide emotional benefits for both parties, irregardless of any paranormal implications. Maybe we’re looking at it all wrong. It’s therapy.

| Original Score: B | Dec 17, 2024

What we as humans universally want regardless of fame or anonymity: to not feel alone in our pain, to have what we deserve—and that everything is going to be okay.

| Nov 4, 2024

Look Into My Eyes takes audiences on an intimate journey through the realm of New York City’s psychics to determine the truth behind the practice, address the skepticism towards them, and ultimately show the immeasurable value of human connection.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 25, 2024

Lana Wilson’s soulful, patient, appropriately skeptical documentary takes psychics at their word but also peers behind the curtain in revealing ways.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 22, 2024

Uninterested in proving anything definitively, this film instead asserts the complicated humanity of psychic healers, their clients, and the practice itself.

| Oct 17, 2024

A more honest documentary about psychics would expose them as predatory frauds who are stealing people’s money.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 11, 2024

Whether or not you believe in psychic abilities—even the psychics featured in the film express doubts—the moments of intimate, intense human connection that occur during these readings are undeniable.

| Sep 18, 2024

After these 104 minutes, the world seems both a little more mysterious and reassuring.

| Sep 17, 2024

A strange and entrancing provocation.

| Sep 17, 2024

Human connections are gifts, imagination is powerful and empathy isn’t a trick. These are the things “Look Into My Eyes” patiently communicates to us from its watchful perch.

| Sep 13, 2024

The emotional connections are frequently profound, intimate and, like the film itself, compelling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 13, 2024

I genuinely enjoyed spending time with these slightly odd but utterly absorbing individuals.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 13, 2024

Some of what we do see truly does count as magic, in one sense of the word or another.

| Sep 13, 2024

Wilson has no interest in debating whether psychics are real or not, recognizing that distinction as immaterial. If people need something, then it is real.

| Sep 13, 2024

By using psychics as her idiom, Wilson unveils the uncomfortable place between belief and skepticism in a way that speaks to more than whether or not psychics can contact the dead or see more than the rest of us.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 13, 2024