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Peter Debruge, Miami Herald: A rich, well-crafted documentary that offers a rare glimpse at someone who respected Mother Nature but refused to live by her rules. Read more
Allison Benedikt, Chicago Tribune: The movie here is Treadwell's footage -- some of it beautiful, much of it difficult to watch. Read more
Joshua Katzman, Chicago Reader: Like so much of Herzog's work, both narrative and documentary, this is an engrossing look at obsessive behavior gone terribly awry. Read more
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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Grizzly Man is the strange, sad and mesmerizing tale of a man who wanted to be a bear. Read more
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: Although the film has sympathy for its subject's idiosyncrasy, Herzog makes it clear that he strongly disagrees with Treadwell's sentimental view of nature. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: This is shaping up to be another great year for documentaries and this is one of the best. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Whatever you finally conclude about Treadwell, Herzog has made a one-of-a-kind movie. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: Herzog is still the only person who could have made Grizzly Man. His admiration for Treadwell has its limits, but he understands, better than most directors, what it means to follow dreams into the belly of the beast. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: It's an uncompromising character study of a man who found peace, and ultimately death, among some of the most dangerous predators on the planet. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Sublime. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: A disturbing and provocative tale of obsession, bravado and self-invention that leaves you open-mouthed for all kinds of reasons. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Though Herzog's approach is chillingly fascinating, it makes this film less about an unusual life than about a bizarre death. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Grizzly Man approaches greatness for all the things it touches on and the one thing it resists. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: A mesmerizing work of disturbing power and unease. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: A fascinating, evenhanded study of a strange man killed by his life's calling. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: [Grizzly Man] fails to establish Treadwell as much more than a serious headcase, let alone a titanic figure. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: What really elevates Grizzly Man ... is the tension between the gloomy European's view of nature as indifferent and unresponsive to man's best intentions and the manic American's fevered, hopeful embrace of what would ultimately kill him. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It's not great filmmaking but it is amazing film. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Herzog allows us to make up our own minds as we watch this lost soul on his fervent, increasingly desperate search for love, spirituality and fame. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: Treadwell's journey was no less bold or reckless than ... earlier Herzogian tales and certainly no less enthralling. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: An alternately gripping and funny-charming nature film and psychological study. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Grizzly Man is unlike any nature documentary I've seen. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: As a filmmaker, in Herzog's opinion, Treadwell was without equal. But as a naturalist, well, let's just say that his canteen had sprung a leak. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Compelling, disturbing documentary. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: [Treadwell] left behind 100 hours of some of the most astonishing nature footage ever captured by camera. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Treadwell, a failed TV actor, is presented as someone desperate to give and receive love. That he went to such extremes is tragic, but also, in Herzog's sympathetic eyes, deeply human. Read more
Ben Walters, Time Out: Fascinating as both nature documentary and as a portrait of a narcissistic monomaniac, utterly in keeping with Herzogian type. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Grizzly Man is a haunting and fascinating portrait of so much that is worth exploring: the implacability of nature, the hubris of human endeavor and the line between supreme dedication and madness. Read more
Scott Foundas, Variety: A brilliant portrait of adventure, activism, obsession and potential madness that ranks among helmer Werner Herzog's strongest work. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Grizzly Man is many things, including a much more resonant and complex portrait of TV-poisoned narcissism than Tarnation. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: A small masterpiece of a documentary that takes us into the heart of a complex darkness: the mysterious land of Alaska, the world of grizzly bears and, most significantly, the soul of Timothy Treadwell. Read more