I think this movie is suited mainly for people who are interested in Renee L'Esperance and the Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing software. The movie didn't spark my interest in those subjects, so it was a chore for me to sit through it.

| Original Score: C | Dec 2, 2024

If nothing else, Seeking Mavis Beacon reveals an America coming to terms with a shifting cultural landscape, where gender and identity have moved on. A place where AI is quickly changing everything about the way we live our lives.

| Nov 23, 2024

This is less a documentary about Mavis Beacon and more an exploration of filmmaker Jazmin Jones and her relationship with the internet of days past.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 20, 2024

Seeking Mavis Beacon sets itself as a piece of groundbreaking program. However, its execution is so full of bugs that it fails to live up to its promise, resulting in it crashing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 9, 2024

Seeking Mavis Beacon balances intuition versus obsession in a search for an internet icon in a Tumblr core documentary from visionary Jazmin Jones.

| Oct 2, 2024

I appreciate, and sometimes am entertained by, the way Jones rafts down the stream of consciousness through “Seeking Mavis Beacon.” But just as often I’m wishing she would get to the point faster.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 30, 2024

The film becomes less about Beacon or L'Esperance, remoulding itself as a coming-of-age picture for these women attempting to seek truth in the myth of their youth.

| Sep 30, 2024

Though a bit uneven, the documentary presents an intriguing journey about art, identity and history in cyberspace… where everything lasts forever.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 27, 2024

That complexity is what drives this detective story away from the search for Renée and towards an introspective look at the changing landscape of representation, deep fakes, and truth.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 20, 2024

Seeking Mavis Beacon is funny and insightful, with keen observations about art, activism, technology, identity, and ownership.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 20, 2024

Despite its occasional missteps, this self-assured doc is as interesting and complex as the figure at its center. It posing intriguing questions about representation, ownership of self, parasocial fandom, and what it is to come of age online.

| Sep 20, 2024

“Seeking Mavis Beacon” is a countercultural documentary that many will find challenging if you are going into it blind. If you are willing to go with the flow and give it your complete attention, it will be worth your time

| Sep 19, 2024

“Seeking Mavis Beacon” is one of the most interesting and thoughtful docs you’ll likely see all year.

| Original Score: B | Sep 18, 2024

Expertly weaves nostalgia, technology, and identity into a thought-provoking exploration of our digital lives. Its originality and cultural relevance make it a must-watch for anyone interested in the evolving dynamics of our digital world.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 17, 2024

In this twisty, provocative hybrid documentary, filmmakers Jazmin Renée Jones and Olivia McKayla Ross set out to answer one set of burning questions and instead find themselves navigating a much thornier journey of artistic discovery and reclamation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 13, 2024

Seeking a woman denied a voice, Jones has made herself the star of her own film, doing all sorts of things, like roller skating and consulting a tarot reader, that will make doc purists clutch their pearls, a sidelong pleasure of the piece.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 12, 2024

“Seeking Mavis Beacon” makes the lows as meaningful as the highs, endorsing a wild web world in which mystery and exposure can peacefully coexist.

| Sep 6, 2024

While it doesn't have a Hollywood ending, 'Seeking Mavis Beacon' is a fascinating journey and conversation starter about privacy in the digital age.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2024

The internet isn’t real, but its impact on people is very much palpable. This is nicely reflected in these details and elements like vulnerable testimony from Jones on how much Mavis Beacon meant to her.

| Sep 4, 2024

A documentary that reflects the state of the Internet as it stands, and as it turns a mirror on its makers.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 2, 2024