Cutler wisely anchors the film with his interview with Stewart and lets her relate her story in her own words. The disarming candor and occasional prickliness is revealing.

| Jan 3, 2025

What I liked about this is that it’s not pure hagiography, and was willing to get into uncomfortable subjects, like Stewart’s affairs and breakups.

| Dec 6, 2024

This documentary did that rare thing, it got under the skin of the icon and showed the woman.

| Nov 24, 2024

Prolific documentarian R.J. Cutler delivers a brisk, visually-dazzling chronicle of Stewarts dizzying highs and devastating lows.

| Nov 22, 2024

Ultimately, nothing can defeat her and despite all her flaws, that's a good thing.

| Nov 18, 2024

If anything, one walks away with immense respect for a woman that could have easily let life live her - but instead lived life her way on her own terms

| Nov 17, 2024

“I never look the other way,” she says, and thankfully neither does Cutler’s documentary.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 15, 2024

An overproduced valentine to somebody you wouldn't want to give one to.

| Nov 13, 2024

To its credit, it doesn't pull any punches on the tough side of her.

| Nov 13, 2024

I thought this was tremendous. It's one thing to make a documentary that's fairly comprehensive about Martha Stewart, but to get her to be revealing about herself -- which she does not like to do -- is quite an achievement.

| Nov 13, 2024

A well-paced but overly lengthy documentary about a fascinating woman, this film does what you hope it will by offering new information about a very public figure.

| Nov 12, 2024

An intense, challenging film that somehow brings us closer to the essence of the American dream through the very particular journey of the protagonist... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 11, 2024

Makes no attempts to tenderize Stewart or to arrange her so her prettiest petals touch the light...That’s where we’re allowed to see her fullness: through the cracks in that flawless façade...Martha Stewart is LIVING and that's on period.

| Nov 10, 2024

“Martha” feels like a far more comprehensible key to Stewart — who has been the subject of speculation, fascination, jokes that turn cruel and plenty of schadenfreude — than half a century of media attention has managed to find.

| Nov 6, 2024

You don’t necessarily want to be her, but there’s something so compelling about watching her twist herself around to become this impossible-to-please empress of all she beholds.

| Nov 5, 2024

Martha Stewart is a very difficult subject and the filmmaker never really gets a handle on her.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 5, 2024

Martha Stewart is not happy with this callous, self-empowered, spicy documentary and - quite frankly - I don't blame her. The lifestyle guru emerges as a stern, humorless bitch. Is she? I don't know. But writer/director R.J. Cutler does her no favors.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 5, 2024

Martha won’t make you want to invite Stewart to tea, but there is some respect earned from such an unguarded portrait. Stewart could easily have demanded a manicured fluff piece on her success, but ultimately the truth is far more fascinating.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 5, 2024

It’s a bold, bracing documentary that’s valuable as both an insight into Stewart’s life and a larger examination of the evolving idea of American women in the home.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 4, 2024

My ambivalence to the subject of this doc became earnest interest thanks to Cutler’s willingness to pry behind Martha’s carefully styled facade and bear the brunt of her annoyance.

| Nov 4, 2024