Overall, Sherpa is a thought-provoking, beautiful yet unbalanced documentary.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2019

Simultaneously arthouse-beautiful and fiercely political, this will set jaws agape both through its stunning imagery and its objective portrayal of its complex cast of interviewees.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 9, 2019

The blend of slow motion imagery and accelerated time lapse photography along with the use of multiple cameras instils Sherpa with an evolving vibrancy, reinforced by a stirring orchestral score which heaps ever more emotion on knife edge proceedings.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 8, 2019

The Sherpas hit the cutting room floor in most Everest movies. Not this time.

| Mar 6, 2019

In [Jennifer] Peedom's film we see a mountain that is both workplace and sacred site, integral to both the economic livelihood and the religious beliefs of the surrounding Sherpa community.

| Sep 12, 2017

Through terrific nature photography from Renan Ozturk, Hugh Miller, and Ken Sauls, [Jennifer] Peedom has captured anew the wonder of Everest.

| Aug 14, 2017

Cinema is full of representations of the landscape that inspire terror.... Jennifer Peedom's Sherpa is the most recent of that canon: it is a climbing film, an Australian film and a documentary about the deadliest day in Everest's history.

| Jul 19, 2017

A prime example of right-time/right-place documentary making.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 14, 2016

Jennifer Peedom delivers a fascinating mixture of local drama and globalised clash of cultures.

| Apr 22, 2016

The result is an Everest film for thinking people that is both thrilling and exhilarating, a real must-see.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 7, 2016

Sherpa has little desire in hammering any particular message home, beyond offering a window into a seldom-seen culture.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 7, 2016

Sherpa repeatedly depicts, with an obvious empathy, Everest's conflicting elements ... No matter how high someone stands, the world's harsh realities are always present.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 6, 2016

This sobering, revealing and appreciably raw documentary presents a very different picture of what happens up on Mount Everest during peak climbing periods.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 6, 2016

Sherpa is different and arresting: it's an old-fashioned documentary that allows the participants to tell their stories.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 1, 2016

Documentary director Jen Peedom chronicles an industrial dispute like no other in her thoughtful account of high risk at high altitude, Sherpa.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 31, 2016

The single most effective element to Sherpa is Renan Ozturk's cinematography.

| Original Score: Recommended | Mar 30, 2016

Documentary is a fascinating genre: it can lead filmmakers to unexpected places and smartly opportunistic filmmakers (in the best sense), will take advantage of such opportunities. This is such a case. This is such a film

| Mar 27, 2016

My criticism lies in the fact that Peedom has included every potential controversy instead of concentrating on ... the integral role of the Sherpa and the 360 million dollar tourist industry it enables

| Mar 27, 2016

Sherpa is an accomplished, gripping film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 25, 2016

Sherpa is an absorbing, compelling and eye-opening piece of work that sheds new light on a struggle we rarely witness on the daunting Mount Everest.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 4, 2016