[A] heartwarming documentary.

| Mar 10, 2020

Without revealing too much, it's fair to say Maiden, Edwards and her crew did better than most people expected.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 19, 2019

Maiden is simply riveting, a story of grandeur and sweep that's also moving and intimate because there are so many naked emotions in play.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 17, 2019

"Maiden" makes sense of her journey and tells a story whose tidal waves were felt far beyond the deck of her ship.

| Original Score: A | Jul 26, 2019

[Alex] Holmes' documentary is as inspirational and empowering as it is frothily exhilarating.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2019

A taut, gripping documentary about one young woman's dream...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 17, 2019

A thrilling, often weepy tale of female empowerment.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 15, 2019

Using archival footage and fresh recollections, director Alex Holmes offers an illuminating look into the weird world of jibs and rigging in a film that transcends the action of the sport.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 13, 2019

"Maiden" concludes so movingly, with such perfect symbolism, that it rivals any scripted sports drama.

| Jul 12, 2019

Maiden puts us all in the ship right there with them.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 12, 2019

The movie is catnip for the gender parity conversation that ends on a triumphant note.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 11, 2019

If only director Alex Holmes' ability to commandeer a story was one-tenth as ambitious as his lead character.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 9, 2019

Writer-director Alex Holmes ("Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story") absorbingly recounts the story of Edwards and her team in an unfussy linear style that effectively recaptures the tension of their gutsy undertaking.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 3, 2019

Maiden" celebrates the defiant spirit of all the female athletes who have challenged the sporting world's entrenched sexism.

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

With stunning archival footage and interviews with the amazing Maiden crew, Holmes captures that high in this stirring documentary that recounts not just the feminist achievement, but triumph of the human spirit.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 3, 2019

But even at its most visceral and exciting, it's the emotion at the story's core, and the higher principles at work, that make it transcendent.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 2, 2019

An all-women crew knocked the sexist world on its ass by winning this 1989 yacht race. This dazzling doc from director Alex Holmes proves these female pioneers are still a cause for celebration.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 29, 2019

What we have from director Alex Holmes is a documentary with all the nervous-making energy of a first-rate drama; a cast of sailors who are both endearing and intelligent; and a delicately wrought suspense story.

| Jun 28, 2019

Maiden excels as a suspenseful sports tale and a record of a historic first, but its biggest strength is in its warts-and-all character study of the Maiden crew.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 28, 2019

The negativity and sexism the crew faced is so purposefully explained earlier in the film that the audience gets a full sense of the emotional response the Maiden earned around the world.

| Jun 27, 2019