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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe New York TimesBen KenigsbergIt’s a pleasure to spend 80 minutes in Mr. Berry’s company.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeSticking mostly to one corner of the turf Berry has staked out, this unusual and quite beautiful documentary seeks to connect with him by getting to know the land and those who work it near the author's Kentucky home.
- 70Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleIn lieu of a literal fulfillment of the title’s promise, Dunn gives us a spiritual one, an aggressively poetic elegy to the pre-industrialized agrarian work/life ethic Berry made his most deeply felt cause.
- 60VarietyJoe LeydonVarietyJoe LeydonThe documentary is too tepid to generate anything like excitement or outrage, and elicits admiration more for its intentions than for its execution.
- 50Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlHere, as Berry warns, the imagination is limited by the camera. In a world in which I couldn’t buy Berry’s New Collected Poems, I might make an effort to see this again someday, with my eyes shut.
- 50RogerEbert.comRogerEbert.comIn its brief, 80-minute running time, Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry encompasses two different films, and neither one of them is, in fact, a portrait of the poet/novelist/farmer/activist Wendell Berry. Neither one of them, despite sincere intentions, is very good.
- 50Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenUltimately, Look & See seems to have many objectives, yet accomplishes none of them satisfactorily.