Overall, the film certainly succeeds as a portrait of two under-sung but significant late twentieth century artists.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 25, 2024

Absorbing and occasionally poignant, Squaring the Circle has much to offer a general audience, but rock palaeontologists will be especially enamoured.

| Original Score: 18.5/20 | Oct 24, 2023

It should not be a surprise that as a subject for his first documentary film, the Dutch director chose a legendary design studio known for iconic sleeve art. What may be surprising is how enjoyable and generally light-hearted the end result is.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 26, 2023

Squaring The Circle is a funny, access all areas time capsule to remind us that art doesn’t have to be hanging in the Louvre to be considered a masterpiece

| Jul 23, 2023

Squaring the Circle may not be the most innovative documentary of the year, but it shines a light on an undertold story in music history, and it’s fortunate enough to be able to tell it in its subject’s own words.

| Jul 21, 2023

A fascinating and suitably maverick snapshot of a richly creative moment in music history, told through a couple of disreputable hippies who designed some of the most iconic album covers of all time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 16, 2023

For anyone of a certain age, or anyone of any age into graphic design, it’s compelling stuff.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2023

Corbijn, originally a band photographer himself, gets high-quality anecdotes out of the interviewees and there are enough scandals and spilled beans to distract from the fact that this is a pretty conventional talking-heads-and-archive-footage affair...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2023

The bar was set high for Squaring The Circle, pairing an intriguing subject with a visionary director. It doesn’t quite live up to those expectations, but serves as an entertaining entry into a chapter of art and pop history.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 13, 2023

Hipgnosis played a huge part in persuading us that albums were what an educated consumer prefers, and not silly jangly singles.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 12, 2023

An enjoyable survey of Hipgnosis’s revolutionary work.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 10, 2023

Squaring the Circle truly is a music lover’s dream. It’s a lovingly crafted, if somewhat formulaic documentary about the people who changed music without ever touching an instrument.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 7, 2023

a captivating, behind-the-scenes, esoteric tale of rock music to which most people don’t give a second thought.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jun 27, 2023

A grand rock and roll buffet with something for everybody.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jun 15, 2023

Squaring the Circle is catnip for a music lover of a certain age with a treasured cache.

| Jun 15, 2023

The film cleverly presents a wide range of artwork, archival clips and new interviews with notable musicians. Not only do they share awesome rock-n-roll anecdotes, but they remind us how things have changed since the heyday.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 13, 2023

Anyone who ever bought an LP by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel, Wings, Genesis, 10cc, Electric Light Orchestra, T. Rex, Bad Company, or Emerson, Lake & Palmer has probably gazed upon a Hipgnosis album cover at one time or another.

| Jun 12, 2023

The subject matter is niche, but fans of that era and genre should find this interesting.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 9, 2023

The influence of hallucinogens on vinyl art and business, the 60's 70's London pop scene and the biggest music stars of the day. Food for the eye and soul and of course for music lovers.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 9, 2023

Its eccentric subjects and amusing anecdotes should provide a nostalgic kick for aficionados of rock history.

| Jun 9, 2023