A really interesting documentary.

| Jan 11, 2025

Packed with archival gold and fresh interviews, American filmmaker Stephen Soucy’s loving tribute celebrates a chaotically successful filmic endeavour and the complicated love of James Ivory and Ismail Merchant

| Dec 31, 2024

... A dense, rewarding and essentially chronological analysis that reminds us of the duo’s pre-eminence as film-makers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 16, 2024

It’s heady stuff but ultimately this is about the work — and what work it was.

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

Theirs was a volatile, complex relationship, as director Stephen Soucy’s honest, fascinating documentary, full of talking heads from the Merchant Ivory family, as they liked to call it, makes clear.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 11, 2024

Stephen Soucy’s affectionate yet scattershot documentary on this 40-year partnership explores the overlap between the two as lovers and as collaborators...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 11, 2024

Whether you’re a fan of the company’s work specifically or simply interested in the history of cinema, this portrait of its longest-lasting partnership will delight and entertain you.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 5, 2024

Perceptive contributions from Vanessa Redgrave, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant and Helena Bonham Carter, this admiring profile may not win over many converts. But it will delight fans of Merchant Ivory's distinctive and deceptively acute pictures.

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

In a word, their films were classy, bringing a taste of high-brow culture to the movie screen and thus to towns all over America.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 12, 2024

If you are a fan of their films than I'd recommend Merchant Ivory. It's a solid entertaining documentary and worth your time.

| Sep 24, 2024

"Merchant Ivory" is a fairly nuts-and-bolts look at the titular men behind the camera and their life-long relationship bolstered by many talking heads.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 20, 2024

One of the most successful artistic partnerships in 20th century film history.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 17, 2024

What I found most refreshing in this is how they elevate these films again -- many of which were dismissed in their own time.

| Sep 16, 2024

I found it very interesting... Definitely a celebration of both their successful careers and lasting love and partnership.

| Sep 16, 2024

Director Stephen Soucy has made a great film about making movies, a detailed account of the film production process that also finds room for biography and dishy gossip.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 16, 2024

Another example of how contemporary historians rewrite the past.

| Sep 12, 2024

If the Merchant Ivory films meant anything to do at all, you’ll probably love this.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 6, 2024

Ivory is a living legend, and “Merchant Ivory” does its best to place him and the Merchant Ivory company as one of the cornerstones of US indie filmmaking.

| Sep 5, 2024

Required viewing for those craving more information about a personal and professional relationship that was often just as fascinating as any Merchant Ivory film.

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

Whether you adore all their movies, admire just a few, or renounce them as big-screen Masterpiece Theater, Merchant Ivory provides an absorbing and unpredictable peek behind a curtain.

| Sep 3, 2024