Stutz has a strange amount of bravado for a therapist, talking frequently about his natural talent for therapy and the way ideas spontaneously come to him...especially with his invented vocabulary, he comes off more like a cult leader than a therapist.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 2, 2023

Instead of just being another documentary, Jonah Hill’s courageous film opened its doors and just let the audience in. Much appreciated. Highly recommend.

| Original Score: A | Feb 8, 2023

Actor/director Jonah Hill honors his psychiatrist. A great introduction to the world of therapy, and an opportunity to see what kinds of things a world-class therapist, who genuinely cares about his patients, can bring to the table of your life.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 5, 2023

Take [Stutz's] therapy tools with a grain of salt, but understand that this is precisely the kind of communication and relationship that deserves to be uplifted as transformative.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 4, 2023

What Hill and Stutz do manage to accomplish is as undeniable as their sincerity, which transcends a process that is bound to be messy and flawed.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 19, 2022

If you need a shot of inspiration to pull you out of the blues, this is the film. Part biography, part therapy and lots of self-help combined with a likable yet flawed main character make this a film that will get you thinking, feeling and moving on.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 18, 2022

From uncomfortable uses of power to try and find gravitas for the story to an uneven roadmap that is supposed to guide audiences after the film's runtime ends, Stutz is clearly a flawed film but is still one with great potential.

| Dec 4, 2022

I hope as many people as possible check this out and garner at least one valuable tool to take back with them in their daily lives.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 29, 2022

Jonah Hill’s attempt at sharing a form of healing is an admirable one and he has a partner in Phil Stutz that is every bit the interesting subject as we become the listeners in the role of both patient and therapist ourselves.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 28, 2022

Even at its most earnest, there’s an undeniable sense of this operation being a TED Talk-esque sales pitch. Yet, it is oddly comforting to see Hill, an actor about whom I was previously ambivalent, seem so truly at ease with himself.

| Nov 18, 2022

This film has a worthy goal: to change the perspectives of people who might be hurting right now. For those willing to go with its flow, it has a real power.

| Nov 18, 2022

Instead of a stagy one-sided interview, we’re treated to an honest conversation about mental health and human flaws between two men who share a touchingly warm bond.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2022

This pandemic-shot doc about his road to healing is about as raw, candid, and poignantly soul-bearing as you could hope for.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 17, 2022

Emotionally resonant and technically innovative, Jonah Hill's Netflix documentary is a great ode to friendship and kindness.

| Nov 16, 2022

This film and its stars aim to convey a message of hope. Putting natural cynicism aside, Hill does appear to have gained a lot from his work with Stutz, and their friendship seems beneficial for them both.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 15, 2022

Hill’s nods to filmmaking tricks add to the sense we’re sharing in something authentic: a portrait of affection.

| Nov 15, 2022

Jonah Hill’s gently powerful documentary Stutz is a personal project about someone else’s work.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 15, 2022

A charmingly atypical, cleverly constructed documentary that addresses the need for mental health maintenance through the open-hearted rapport between two vulnerable men.

| Nov 15, 2022

Easy though it’d be for Hill’s documentary to feel like a navel-gazing vanity project, Stutz ultimately lands as an earnest attempt to democratise the life-affirming tools he’s gained from therapy – and a tribute to his titular therapist.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 14, 2022

In a vacuum of so much vapid self-help entertainment, Stutz feels like the rare outlier that breaks through the noise and takes root.

| Nov 14, 2022