All The Beauty and the Bloodshed

"One of the more satisfying and provocative artist portraits of recent years."

"A devastating work of shocking intelligence and still greater emotional power."

"It’s arguably two different movies (sometimes jarringly) interlaced. But it’s propulsive, incendiary film-making."

"Poitras hasn’t embraced the usual journalistic norms in directing this documentary... there never was any danger of her both-siding this raw, emotionally ferocious story..."

"Each of these subjects would easily warrant a single dedicated documentary, but together there is a slight vagueness of purpose."

"A sublime and gritty knockout."

"Masterful..."

"(Shines) an insightful light onto what informs an artist’s vision."

"Poitras’ best film."

"Profound... but also a good deal of fun..."

"Laura Poitras’s documentary portrait of the photographer Nan Goldin shares its subject’s passion, candor, and scope of action."

"An incendiary tale..."

"As a character portrait, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is absorbing, but as an argument it fails."

"Searing..."

"(A) surprising, blistering look at the opioid crisis."

"No matter how closely you’ve followed Goldin’s career, or the story of the Sackler family’s forced reckoning, there is something new to learn..."

"A holistic portrait..."

"(Poitras') gift for suspenseful contemplation is on full display here..."

"Two incomplete movies."

"Poitras tackles the complex subject matter... with appreciable sophistication..."