A watchable, if by-the-book, documentary. It’s only a pity that the conventional storytelling hems in such a deeply unconventional director.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 17, 2024

An entertaining and enlightening trawl through the screen legend’s filmography and life.

| Apr 5, 2024

Digs deep into the director’s artistry and obsessions while capturing his need for on-the-edge-of-the-precipice creativity (hello Klaus Kinski) and radical optimism. And, frankly, some of the archival material is just astounding.

| Apr 4, 2024

A straightforward portrait, Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer will satisfy both established Herzog fans looking for quirks and those interested in him from a pure filmmaking background.

| Mar 14, 2024

This profile by Thomas von Steinaecker gets lots of intimate time at Herzog’s side to hear anecdotes and reflections from across a career of singular scope and vision.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 31, 2024

We're offered insight into what originally drove Herzog to make his films, his second career as a documentarian and his ongoing success, particularly in the USA.

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

Fans will love how Thomas von Steinaecker gets under Werner Herzog's skin to trace his amazing career in a linear style.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 23, 2024

Interviewees tie themselves in knots of gushing superlatives, but the real insights come from the man himself.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 21, 2024

The German film-maker, actor and whispering cultural icon Werner Herzog is the subject of this affectionate and occasionally awestruck documentary from the novelist and journalist Thomas von Steinaecker.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 19, 2024

Engaging, but a fairly standard-issue biography.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 19, 2024

Who else, muses Wim Wenders, one of the many talking heads in Thomas von Steinaeker’s exhilarating documentary, has succeeded in “inventing” their own accent in a way that the whole world imitates and enjoys?

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 19, 2024

People seem amazed and horrified by Herzog, and the doc outlines paints his toxic collaboration with Klaus Kinski. If their extreme antics weren’t real, the story would beggar the imagination. theatres.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 19, 2024

The film soars—nay, flies—when he waxes philosophical and delivers the loony, deadpan prophesies that people love.

| Jan 19, 2024

Von Steinaecker does more than due diligence, but the film can’t begin to account for the strangeness and variety of Herzog’s career. Where it scores, however, is in its welcome demystification...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 18, 2024

While not a deep dive, Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer, is an enjoyable profile of one of cinema’s most distinctive visionaries, and voices.

| Original Score: B-plus | Jan 18, 2024

Calling a film-maker a “dreamer” sounds hackneyed, but it does justice to his idealism. Perhaps no other description will do.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2024

A creative portrait of a lover of Mystery.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2024

He's so magnetic that you just want to listen to him for hours and hours.

| Dec 7, 2023

Any fan of his films will enjoy this.

| Dec 7, 2023

Whilst it's never intrusive, the film makes room for the personal and, perhaps more importantly, for Herzog to meander, interlinking diverse ideas in his inimitable way.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2023