The true highlight of the film is, of course, the extended interview with the 88-year-old Morrison, which proves the narrative backbone of the film.

| Jan 11, 2022

An essay on the continued importance and cultural significance of Toni Morrison's work, the impact of which - the film makes clear - cannot be overstated.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2021

[This] moving portrait of a literary icon is a timely reminder of the power of the pen...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 22, 2021

Docu about legendary author has some violent imagery.

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

The program is a must-see for any student of literature and anyone curious about her work, and the world from which she emerged.

| Jun 23, 2020

A documentary that brims with love and admiration for Morrison's work and life.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2020

Overall, The Pieces I Am is a celebratory, empowering and vivacious documentary, allowing audiences to bask in the company of the woman behind the legacy.

| Mar 13, 2020

The film is a bit too long but if you have read the books it will make you want to reread them, and if you haven't you will want to.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2020

[Morrison's] novels managed to catch the African-American experience better perhaps than anyone has before or since, and to listen to her talk about her craft here is a joy.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 10, 2020

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders's documentary portrait of the Nobel-winning author is a fluent introduction to her work, but its main attraction is the sense it gives you of being in her company.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2020

Instead it capitalises on the authority with which she talks about her craft and the life experience and history that has informed it to provide an illuminating personal insight into her radical body of work.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 9, 2020

Whether you have read everything she wrote or have never ventured into her worlds, it's likely that the first thing you'll do when you leave the cinema is pick up one of her novels.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 9, 2020

Greenfield-Sanders's film is not as structurally daring as its subject, but it makes great use of archive and text alongside its talking heads.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 7, 2020

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' timely documentary on the Nobel Prize-winning novelist is a persuasive argument for rereading Morrison if you've already read her works -- and if you haven't, an imperative to get to it.

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

The revelation that Morrison was also a single mother of two, who would get up daily at 4am to write before going to her high-powered job at a New York publishing house, is equally inspiring and exhausting.

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

This documentary is a potent commercial for the books themselves.

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

Makes you want to read the books, so full success on that front.

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

For all the intellectual content, the most rewarding part of this documentary is the presence of Morrison herself - her infectious laugh, her famous carrot cake, her joyful love of parties.

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

Coming less than a year after her death, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' film can't help being an elegy - but a celebration, too, of a woman acutely of her times and always a step ahead of them.

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

It's incisive, it's precise, and it's honest

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