More Than Honey Reviews
For patient science-minded kids and adults, it should find the sweet spot between environmental advocacy and visual pleasure.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 3, 2020
The movie compensates for its murkier sections with a poignant outlook.
| Original Score: B | Nov 3, 2020
More Than Honey is a reminder of how thoroughly humans have intertwined themselves with the other life on this planet, and vice versa.
| Sep 18, 2019
There's more than enough here to entertain bee enthusiasts and the environmentally-conscious curious alike.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 2, 2019
It's pretty clear that Imhoof is not a fan of US industrial-scale farming but rather than shove angry stats such as '80 per cent of plants rely on bee pollination' in your face, he prefers to fascinate viewers.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2017
Imhoof's globetrotting odyssey is more concerned with contemplation than investigation.
| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 23, 2014
Markus Imhoof's bee documentary is so stuffed with surreal tableaux it makes your head spin.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2014
It is the elegance of its images that sets it apart from previous doomed bee documentaries. The footage of individual animals going about their business is a sight to behold.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2014
More Than Honey is a phenomenally well-researched and thorough study of bees and their complex influence on human civilization, and an in depth investigation of the honeybee colony collapse disorder.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 1, 2014
Eye-popping photography should draw viewers to this thoughtful, revealing doc.
| Jan 1, 2014
Stinging but positive film about bees.
| Original Score: B+ | Nov 29, 2013
In all, More than Honey makes for surprisingly stimulating fare.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 6, 2013
There is a lot to be learned from this thoughtful film as you marvel at the amazingly intimate images of colony life.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 6, 2013
An interesting, and interestingly laidback film, an almost restful look at honeybees and the way they are kept and cultivated across the world.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2013
A fascinating, informative and startling documentary that explores the disappearance of the honeybee.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 5, 2013
You come out of the film none the wiser as to where the bees have all gone. But you still learn a hell of a lot about them.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2013
Elegant, handsomely shot and often instructive, and its remarkable extended close-up sequences of bees' social structure are fascinating.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2013
Summer's blitz of apocalypse movies has nothing on this bee doc.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 4, 2013
Feels slightly diffuse in its analysis.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 3, 2013
Informative and occasionally scary.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 2, 2013