Hard to imagine it could be more revelatory than this excellent documentary about one of life's true individuals.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2022

For most of his life, Oliver Wolf Sacks was a helpless shape shifter. Watching him come into his own is quite something.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 8, 2021

With humour and insight, Sacks describes his extraordinary life as it's about to end in this fascinating and moving documentary.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 1, 2021

It doesn't flinch from the darkness of Sacks's childhood or from the insecurities that dogged him though his life. And yet it is still a celebration.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 30, 2021

Even if you're not familiar with Sacks' work, this documentary autobiography is a moving and compelling portrait of a flawed man who did landmark work.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 30, 2021

What a man. Just writing this makes me want to watch the documentary all over again.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 28, 2021

Only occasionally does the documentary drift into hagiography when interviewees such as Paul Theroux and Robert Krulwich fall over themselves to praise Sacks.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 27, 2021

There's an emotional ebb and flow that allows for a broad spectrum of disappointments and fallow periods before arriving at the portion of Sacks' life when his own accounts of particular patients garnered both he and them widespread attention.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 16, 2021

The movie shows Sacks as a man of enormous depth and complexity. He had a profound influence on the study of the human mind.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 4, 2021

Ric Burns's brilliant deep-dive documentary captures the complex mind and wild life story of a man whose influence continues to expand across global societies.

| Original Score: A+ | Dec 18, 2020

It took Sacks decades to learn how to live but his friends say he put on a masterclass in demonstrating how to die.

| Dec 8, 2020

This is a movie made about a dying man as he knows he is dying, yet rather than being mournful, it is joyous. Another amazing feat from the life of a truly astonishing individual.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 5, 2020

Despite the relatively conventional filmmaking, what comes through most strongly in this portrait is Sacks' uniqueness -- a quality, as he said himself, which he shared with everyone else who has ever lived.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 5, 2020

It is, in every sense, an incredible trip.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 3, 2020

A fascinating overview of the life and work of a Renaissance Man.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 26, 2020

Above all, the film is affecting, not so much for what you learn, but because it's a pleasure to share Sacks' company -- the slow, deliberate pace of his speech, his humility, his mischief, curiosity and wonder.

| Original Score: A | Oct 23, 2020

I could go on, but you're better off just watching the film, especially if you want to hear about the time he went to Norway and was almost killed by a bull.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2020

[The film] doesn't shy away from criticism or scorn, and Burns' subject is humble and self-effacing enough to understand where concerns about his work are coming from.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 21, 2020

This poet laureate of medicine's belief is that we are all alike in our uniqueness which should connect us to each other. His humane message is one all queer people will appreciate...

| Oct 19, 2020

His Own Life stands as a worthy and thoughtful record, creating a holistic picture of a man who truly understood how to create a life of meaning.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 10, 2020