Andy Goldworthy's work deserves to be profiled in this breathtaking, beautiful, and fascinating look in to nature, the creative process, and of an unassuming artist...

| Apr 29, 2009

If the film lets Goldsworthy overexplain what's happening, it also affords ample to time to languidly take in the imagery and let its beauty and simplicity speak for itself.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 2, 2008

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 15, 2005

An absorbing portrait of a unique artist's professional and personal communion with nature.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 26, 2005

| Original Score: 9/10 | Feb 13, 2005

His work reminds us of an artist's true focus: a meditative commitment to discovery, creativity, and the enhancement of God's own invention.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Jan 15, 2005

Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time is an extraordinarily spiritually literate documentary about one of the world's greatest nature artists.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 5, 2004

A wondrous look at an artist and his work with lots of joyous surprises.

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | Sep 30, 2004

Hypnotic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2004

A beautiful, probing art documentary.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 16, 2004

When it's at its most self-aware, Rivers and Tides precociously tweaks the pessimist's view of art as an exercise in futility.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 19, 2003

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 1, 2003

The film doesn't just explain Goldsworthy's vision -- it brings us closer to seeing the world through his eyes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 11, 2003

Rivers and Tides is subtle and meditative almost to a fault ... So it's fortunate that the film is relatively short and that its subject -- Andy Goldsworthy, a Scottish sculptor known for working with nature -- is so fascinating.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 17, 2003

A documentary that introduces us to an artist whose work is full of contradictions -- contradictions that spill over into the act of watching the movie.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 15, 2003

You will want someone to talk to about the film and acknowledge the marvels you saw.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 8, 2003

The artistry of Thomas Riedelsheimer's film perfectly compliments Goldsworthy's art.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Aug 7, 2003

A lovely, curiously inspiring appreciation of Goldsworthy's unusual artistic vision.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 4, 2003

It is impossible to be unmoved by both the beauty of artist Andy Goldsworthy's work and his undying commitment to it.

Full Review | Original Score: 79/100 | Jul 30, 2003