This is a wonderful story. Director Benjamin Ree takes the right approach to help us understand the value of learning about Mats Steen.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 8, 2025

Sublime

| Dec 31, 2024

It redefines what makes us human.

| Original Score: 4 stars | Dec 16, 2024

...a crucial document for understanding the rich community that can form via online role-playing games.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 1, 2024

I was completely unprepared for how moving it was really going to be.

| Original Score: A+ | Nov 25, 2024

Ree’s film aims to tug on the heartstrings by painting Mats’ relationships with as broad a brush as possible, minimizing the overriding conditions of his life to try make a universal statement on friendship and romance in the digital age.

| Nov 22, 2024

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin pleases as much as it surprises.

| Nov 22, 2024

This is tremendous and needs to be considered a frontrunner for all the documentary awards.

| Nov 13, 2024

A powerful, life-affirming work. Don't miss it.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 11, 2024

It's poignant and moving and surprisingly had me in tears, I was instantly connected to the subject of the doc and completely fascinated by this story.

| Nov 1, 2024

It’s a very inventive way to tell such a story, and it’s presented successfully.

| Nov 1, 2024

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin is indeed remarkable, both for the life story at its core and in the mesmerizing way it's brought to screen.

| Oct 29, 2024

A heartfelt digital eulogy for an unconventional but extremely human life.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2024

... A rare and beautiful thing: a moving documentary that excavates the question of the “real” in a profoundly humanistic and unconventional way.

| Oct 29, 2024

The Remarkable life of Ibelin is an impressive achievement on many levels: technical, artistic, emotional, and social. It’s a must-see.

| Oct 27, 2024

Watch it yourself and see how Ree layers his film with an assortment of monumentally moving details about his subject and how they affected so many others.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 26, 2024

Director Benjamin Ree has consistently indicated a strong eye for great film subjects...Mats, known as Ibelin without World of Warcraft, is definitely another stirring choice.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 25, 2024

Told with a sensitivity that’s matched by its subtlety, it earns the waterworks it quickly and consistently elicits.

| Oct 25, 2024

THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF IBELIN is thus as much of an eye-opening journey for Mats' parents post-mortem as it is evidence of the one he took for himself.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 25, 2024

The filmmakers cleverly combine animation inspired by the game with the usual talking heads to help tell the expansive story of Mats and his alter ego, Ibelin. “The Remarkable Life of Ibelin” is a surprisingly moving experience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 25, 2024