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

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

It's a film, in the end, about mortality, culture and economics from a "less is more" philosophy that seems to document nothing while eventually capturing everything.

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

"The Truffle Hunters" is about a way of life that is off the grid and that few know about, and why it is worth preserving.

| Original Score: B | May 15, 2021

By putting us behind the eyes of a dog racing through the underbrush, happily going about what it understands as its work, "The Truffle Hunters" brings us to the source itself: the sniffing out, the digging, the discovery, the reward.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 12, 2021

It won't necessarily make you want to rush out and pay a fortune for truffles to shave over your eggs. But it will make you appreciate people whose love for something has so fully informed their lives.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 7, 2021

You haven't lived until you've experienced the dog cam.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 25, 2021

This endearing, thoroughly entertaining movie might be what we all need right now: An invitation to stop and smell the roses - or, if you're lucky, their far less showy fungal cousins.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 17, 2021

Bracing and joyous, the film unearths complex, canine-loving characters who bicker and haggle their way into the audience's hearts.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 12, 2021

This is a portrait of a subculture, not an advocacy documentary.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 12, 2021

It's not just a beautiful movie, but it's a really great one for dog lovers.

| Mar 10, 2021

Wonder and whimsy is back in the forest. "The Truffle Hunters" - surely among the greatest dog movies - even wryly occasionally shifts to a dog's point of view.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 6, 2021

The film, directed and photographed (beautifully) by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, is fragrant too, a parallel study in deep gratification and rapt inhalation.

| Mar 6, 2021

What we are presented with is essentially a boisterous gallery of aging oddballs. But to their credit the filmmakers never make fun of them. Their eccentricity, because it is rooted in a passion for the natural world, has an innate dignity.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 5, 2021