Affable eccentricity is everywhere.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 3, 2020

In style it's conventional, but it bounces along, with the brisk editing and David Ullmann's jazzy score setting a fusty yet lively tone not far removed from the films of Woody Allen.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 1, 2020

Unputdownable documentary that evokes the thrill of reading preloved pages and reveals that a passion for collecting is not just a hoarding instinct, but a way to preserve and share culture.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 30, 2020

Overall, this is the kind of documentary you might find mid-week on BBC4, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Expect to be beguiled if nothing else.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 30, 2020

Indifferent to the siren call of computer screens, these characters really do stand out from the crowd.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 29, 2020

Funny, insightful and makes you miss bookstores even more.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 26, 2020

The interest of this garrulous, convivial documentary creeps up on you by degrees: a study of secondhand and antiquarian booksellers in New York City.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 25, 2020

For those that can stick it through, they'll find a unique gem of a movie that they might not know they're missing.

| May 12, 2020

An engrossing documentary that lovingly demonstrates the importance of books within our culture and our evolving relationship to them.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 12, 2020

"The Booksellers" looks at where the trade has been, the psychology of why it has survived generations and how it can move forward. It's as warm and inviting as a good book.

| Original Score: B+ | May 12, 2020

The overall experience is like wandering through an antiquarian book store, picking up a volume, starting to flip through in a leisurely fashion, and then having your arm jostled, losing your place, and picking up another tome.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 30, 2020

"The Booksellers" shares a few of those stories and a little of that learning. And I have to tell you: It feels really good to be roaming those aisles of bookshelves again, even if it's just through a screen.

| Apr 18, 2020

Though it opens with a quote from Susan Sontag invoking Jorge Luis Borges's belief... the film is not about the content, but the container - the tactile, redolent artifact essential to book lovers and sought by collectors.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 9, 2020

Do not be misled by the comic charm of this film. It's a ghost story, brooded over by the rustling wraiths of bookstores dead and gone.

| Mar 13, 2020

I finished the film and felt compelled to turn off the screen and pick up a book.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 12, 2020

It's a warm, embracing if somewhat hermetically sealed portrait.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 11, 2020

[A] delightful homage...

| Mar 6, 2020

Pays warm-hearted tribute to the reading, but also the shopping, the rifling, the obsessing, the complaining, the dreaming, the list-making, the shelf-organizing, and everything else book-lovers love to do.

| Mar 5, 2020

[A] charming documentary about the book world - or more specifically the book-as-object world, with antiquarian booksellers trying to reinvent themselves and their industry in a digital era.

| Mar 5, 2020

The Booksellers is a documentary for people who treasure the sheer look and feel of books... As a proud member of this diminishing tribe of obsessives, I am grateful there exists a film featuring my spiritual kinfolk.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2020