"Varda by Agnès" provides an essential look inside the creative mind. It's not often that filmmakers reveal themselves so openly while looking back over their careers, and it's a treat when they do.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 20, 2020

It's a self-portrait, a film history lesson, a remembrance of things past, a perfect coda to her career, a moving scrapbook and a masterclass that now doubles as a memento mori.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 11, 2019

This is a wonderful movie -- one of my favorites of the year... Even if you haven't seen any of her movies, it's like meeting an old friend.

| Dec 7, 2019

"Varda by Agnès" may be a summing up from one end of a long, beautiful life in art. But it has the lightness, curiosity and spirit of a first film, and that tells us who Varda the artist was too: ever inspired, ever creating, ever eager to share.

| Dec 6, 2019

This final film acts as a perfect button to a legendary life in art, and it's also a launchpad to viewers who want to go back and explore her groundbreaking contributions to the cinema.

| Dec 5, 2019

One of the treats of "Varda by Agnès" is seeing the director in photos and on-set footage over the years, forever self-possessed, always questing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 4, 2019

The late documentarian's final work is a literal master class: a filmed lecture during which she rambles enjoyably through her greatest hits.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 22, 2019

Another testament to the totality of [Varda's] vision.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 22, 2019

"Varda by Agnès," is a fantastic, multi-layered self-portrait that doubles as a tribute to her life and work.

| Nov 22, 2019

It's a perfect introduction and a lovely valediction.

| Nov 21, 2019

Varda By Agnès is most valuable as a freestanding lesson in filmmaking.

| Original Score: B | Nov 20, 2019

The result is a grand, warmhearted testament to her lifetime of creative connections, her art of self-transformation, and her relentless transformation of the art of cinema itself.

| Nov 18, 2019

Varda throughout her life and art accompanied time like an old friend, and we admire her career as if she were ours too during the enriching Varda by Agnès .

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 4, 2019

A master class on filmmaking by the late, great Agnès Varda, by way of a tour of her 64 years behind and in front of the lens, as a leading force of the French New Wave.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 11, 2019

This is a fascinating, informative, and reflective swan song that gives Varda the final word, and some of the due she's been owed her entire career, as one of the most influential feminist filmmakers.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 7, 2019

A parting gift from one of the greatest directors who ever lived.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 23, 2019

It gets a little less sexy towards the end as she ruminates on her love affair with still photography and the essence of truth in the captured image, but overall this is an essential and heart-warming portrait of a sorely missed talent.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 22, 2019

Varda's tone remains generously intimate, friendly and unpretentious.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 21, 2019

A gorgeous trip down memory lane and an impeccably presented primer - one that very much smacks of the official version.

| Jul 20, 2019

Funny, moving and insightful, all filmmakers should lay out their art and art like this. But not all filmmakers can be Agnès Varda.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 18, 2019