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

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

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

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

| Jun 21, 2018

It's the one in least denial that makes the greatest attempt to remember that mountains care not, even as we obsess about them. These are, as Dafoe so perfectly explains, places of terrible joys and dreadful splendors.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2018

Gosh only knows when you'll ever have another chance to see a blooper reel of spills set to Vivaldi.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 1, 2018

For those of us who would never in our wildest imaginings ride a bike off a sky-high mountain peak and then parachute to earth, I can heartily recommend the documentary Mountain, where such feats are standard.

| Original Score: B | Jun 1, 2018

"Mountain" is a lush treat for the senses, scaling great heights, literally, both visually and with its sound.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 31, 2018

An exhilarating vision of many of the world's highest - and most gorgeously photogenic - peaks, and the intrepid sorts who set out to conquer them.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 30, 2018

"Mountain,"... reminds us that mountains "restore our wonder; more than ever we need their wildness."

| May 25, 2018

The fusion of Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto with an aerial shot of two human specks crossing an infinite blue and white ice sheet might elevate your spirit, but only if Dafoe keeps still.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 25, 2018

A unique portrait of mankind's enduring fascination with the world's most formidable summits.

| May 24, 2018

The mountains are alive with the sound of chamber music, as well as Willem Dafoe's distinctive vocal intonations as a narrator, in the essay-style documentary Mountain.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 11, 2018

Have to say that those who climb still strike me as mad, but Mountain let me hear the music.

| May 11, 2018

For those terrified of heights, "Mountain" will be a nonstop nightmare. Yet big scares are a small price for the awe-inspiring footage you'll see. A

| May 10, 2018

Its heights might on occasion yank your stomach to the theater floor, but much of Mountain is a bit of a bliss-out, a chance to contemplate the planet's most remote and dangerous places and our relationship to them.

| May 8, 2018

A visual and musical spectacle that showcases the majesty of nature and man's helplessness to it.

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

Craggy. But worth it for the views.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 18, 2017

Its individual parts are mostly indistinct, coming together to form a vague thesis hinged on lofty platitudes such as "mountains restore our wonder and challenge our arrogance".

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 17, 2017

Lingers for the quality of its visuals.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 15, 2017