"Wildcat" is beautiful ... everything a documentary should be, with a big heart for animals and people alike.

| Original Score: 4 stars | Mar 3, 2023

Wildcat, despite all its good intentions of stringing together the ‘beautiful’ parts of life on this Earth as a way to heal from its terrors, remains disappointing in keeping those terrors vague and distant.

| Jan 28, 2023

Filmmakers Trevor Frost and Melissa Lesh have captured both a compelling human story and a wildlife story. The jungle is a scary place, with many dangers, but even darker dangers lie deep within the human soul, and both are explored in this film.

| Original Score: B | Jan 27, 2023

It becomes really loving, although it doesn't have a lot of "oomph." It's just sweet scenes, one after another.

| Jan 18, 2023

Challenging, thought-provoking, and suspenseful, "Wildcat" is a lot of movie. Hearts will be broken.

| Original Score: FIVE STARS | Jan 17, 2023

Wildcat is a wondrous respite from such trite and calculated offerings; it even has the confidence and conceptual restraint to resist plaguing its frames with unnecessary aestheticizing or arbitrary images of Amazonian grandeur

| Jan 16, 2023

The interplay of wild splendour, fly-on-the-wall immediacy, and the knife-edge tension of Harry’s mental health stakes gives this a harrowing potency.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 11, 2023

In the end Wildcat isn’t just a wildlife documentary; it’s a study of the human condition and of a young soul pushed to the very edge. There’s great pleasure here, and great pain.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 5, 2023

Although Wildcat asserts that there are no easy solutions to Harry's problems, it's nonetheless a memorably and by-turns raw and beautiful portrait of a man and his capacity to love a cat that desperately needs it.

| Jan 4, 2023

Wildcat remains a tense, diverting study of a man struggling with internal demons while doing his best for an initially helpless creature.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 3, 2023

The movie's thematic diversity sets it apart, as filmmakers Trevor Beck Frost and Melissa Lesh use a situation that's easy to identify with to meaningfully explore issues of nature conservation, post-traumatic stress and co-dependency.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 3, 2023

A sensitive portrait of an ecosystem in peril, and the scars that cut deep – no matter how far we run from them.

| Jan 1, 2023

A thoughtful and immersive film where we witness the healing capacity of nature and the deep connection that can be generated between living beings. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Dec 30, 2022

[The filmmakers'] choices make this would-be redemption narrative feel unfortunately and uncomfortably exploitative.

| Dec 30, 2022

While structurally somewhat ragged, it not only will engage lovers of big cats, but proves a compelling story of damaged humans who help one another as well as the animals they care for.

| Original Score: B | Dec 29, 2022

The doc is a triumph of observation.

| Dec 29, 2022

It tunnels deep and becomes a statement about the beauty and cruelty of the world.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 28, 2022

Wildcat is not a fairy tale... But it does reconcile its realities with the elusive nature of happiness, which for both men and cats can mean what’s within their grasp.

| Dec 28, 2022

The jungle photography is particularly good, not exoticizing it but instead letting us explore a piece of terrain which gradually becomes familiar, and inviting us to pick out hidden details as the cats are taught to look for prey.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 27, 2022

Beneath the emotional power, however, it’s hard not to shake the sense that there’s a performative element to the documentary’s DNA.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 27, 2022