It isn't all stunts and derring do; much of the film is simply gorgeous, sweeping, magnificent footage of mountains from all over the globe.

| Mar 5, 2024

This is remarkable, powerful filmmaking, and should be seen on the biggest screen you can find.

| Mar 5, 2024

Stunningly beautiful and genuinely spiritually enlarging - breathtaking scenery, exquisite music, and poetic narration take us to locations no one but the most daring of daredevils have ever seen...

| Mar 5, 2024

Australian filmmaker Jennifer Peedom's extraordinarily beautiful and philosophically profound essay documentary soars to the heights of the world's most remote and challenging peaks.

| Mar 5, 2024

It's truly an awesome experience.

| Jun 30, 2020

I'm not 100 percent sure what the purpose of the Australian documentary Mountain is meant to be, but it does feature some of the most breathtakingly beautiful footage of mountains around the world.

| Jun 16, 2020

While the film takes an unequivocally romantic approach to mountains, it doesn't shy away from casting a critical eye on the colonial thinking that underpinned early mountaineering exploits and that continues in a different form today.

| Aug 2, 2019

As an ocular treat, Mountain is tremendous. As an aural assault, it is decidedly less so. Perhaps akin to small children, it is a film that should be seen but not necessarily heard.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 18, 2019

Robert Macfarlane's script is paired with Renan Ozturk's photography to create a discursive essay whose epic scale and truly stunning visuals compensate for a documentary lacking in real substance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 24, 2019

[It] is the kind of film best seen on the biggest possible screen, an experience that is both exhilarating and meditative, like the mountains it celebrates.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 24, 2019

It's a rich visual and aural feast which sparks the adventurer deep inside us.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 19, 2019

Mountain is an experience for the senses and one that shouldn't be missed in the grandest theater possible.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 20, 2019

At its core, Mountain is nature porn at its finest; between the lines, it becomes a beautiful extrapolation on the incessant drive for man to conquer nature.

| Oct 26, 2018

The visually stunning documentary from director Jennifer Peedom deserves to be seen on the biggest screen possible. Even then, the majesty of these wonderous landforms that reach for the heavens seems restrained by the rectangular partition.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 12, 2018

The actors sell it amazingly well without words. Wam Siluka, Jr in the lead is particularly striking in his ability to register nuances in facial expression to fill the verbal gap.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 7, 2018

The movie is rich with ideas as it fixates on characters roaming empty worlds, searching for impossible ideals. This time, revelation creeps into the picture with heartbreaking results.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 31, 2018

Mountain is a uniquely stunning document, defined by its sublime beauty, cautious reverence, and musical resplendence.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 2, 2018

This Australian nonfiction feature plays like a highbrow version of an IMAX nature documentary.

| Jun 21, 2018

While not in-depth on any one element, this overall meditative, fairly solemn consideration delivers a moving tribute to nature and a provocative examination of individuals confronting our highest peaks.

| Jun 19, 2018

An exhilarating ride, though even at only a bit over an hour the exhilaration can feel a mite overextended.

| Original Score: B | Jun 19, 2018