It is a tear-jerker riven with gentle comedy.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 10, 2024

With its handsome scenery, loveable codgers and cute dogs it’s a movie that wears its calculations fairly openly, but they still work.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2022

The imagery feels meticulously staged yet authentic to the lives of the people who inhabit them, and what's on display is a textured and vibrant aesthetic.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 8, 2022

A portrait of humble beauty, as well as how almost anything can be destroyed by money.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 3, 2022

Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw's documentary provides perhaps the most delightful movie-viewing experience of the year.

| Jan 4, 2022

The movie falls short of creating a singular argument, and the effect of its poetic visuals drifts off by the end. Still, it excels at diving into the essence of a business that's antithetical to modern-day supply and demand.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 3, 2021

While I don't have a strong desire to sample the haute cuisine of white truffles, I do have an intense compulsion to wander around the countryside with Fiona, Titina, and Birba. Especially Birba.

| Dec 3, 2021

You can imagine Bill Murray, Bob Balaban and co ageing up for a Wes Anderson version of this stupidly delightful dog-umentary about elderly truffle hunters roaming Italy's misty, picture-box Piedmont.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 3, 2021

The Truffle Hunters may be a very niche documentary, but it will warm your heart and make you wonder how some can still enjoy the simple pleasures in life.

| Sep 13, 2021

Exquisitely made documentary exploring the eccentricity, humour and doggedness in a disappearing breed of rural man as rare as the exotic fungi so highly prized by epicures

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 13, 2021

Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw's documentary is a delightful, thoughtful film, which slows time down to take us into the hunters' mysterious world.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 20, 2021

One of the best documentaries I've ever seen. Delightful in its simplicity and profound in its wisdom. Specific yet universal, it's an empathetic portrait of charming subjects. It's also really funny.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 19, 2021

The deep respect for nature runs through the film, lending a Malick-y vibe, and a beautiful soundtrack. Much to ponder.

| Aug 13, 2021

The human truffle hunters [collaborate] with the filmmakers to present their craft, trade, and lives from such a coy angle that it leaves one with little to engage.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 6, 2021

This is directed by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw and, visually, it is magnificent, with every scene framed like a gorgeous painting.

| Jul 29, 2021

Its gnarled, subterranean subject may be shrouded in a biblical halo, but The Truffle Hunters sublime focus on the natural world and both its flora and fauna inhabitants offers calming reassurance for the unwashed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 10, 2021

Here is a documentary that is simple but contains multitudes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 10, 2021

What it lacks in narrative drive, it more than makes up for in lovely vignettes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 10, 2021

A lovely film that's quietly profound.

| Jul 9, 2021

The Truffle Hunters is slow but idyllic, with each shot looking like it could be framed and put on the wall of a photography exhibition. It really is a gem.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 9, 2021