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Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Winged Migration is one for the birders, or for all other people who have stood still and forgotten themselves as they watch a sparrow make its way through the world. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: This film by French director Jacques Perrin is to most nature documentaries what King Kong is to monster movies: It towers over them. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Winged Migration is, without question, the best documentary about birds I have ever seen. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: [O]ne of the most astonishing pieces of work I've ever seen. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Many modern fantasy films, employing digital effects and camera trickery, offer us an invitation to fly. None really sweeps us up to the heights like this one. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Provides such an intense vicarious experience of being a flapping airborne creature with the wind in its ears that you leave the theater feeling like an honorary member of another species. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: This is a movie to be seen and savored. And savored again. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: To be next to these birds as they are flying is frankly mesmerizing. Read more
Houston Chronicle: A life-affirming story that's enthralling, inspiring and poignant. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: A feat of diligence -- and not just on the part of its feathered subjects. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: For some 90 minutes, unadorned reality outdazzles special effects, and poetry-prone viewers may find themselves remembering paeans to nature by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: There's not a single special effect, and yet the visuals are spectacular. Read more
Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News: It's a heady, exultant ode to life. Read more
John Powers, L.A. Weekly: The footage ... is astonishing both for the beauty of the birds and for its sheer technical brilliance. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: Nature films are assumed to be plotless, but Winged Migration is full of major and minor narratives, from the basic struggle of a snow goose making its migratory trek from the Gulf to the Yukon, to sequences of decidedly high drama. Read more
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Bob Campbell, Newark Star-Ledger: Perrin's film assembles discontinuous but overlapping visual wonders into a vaguely mystical ode to the endless variety and timeless rhythms of life. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: People have to learn poetry. Birds are born with it. Perrin has merely copied their poetry on film, and it is breathtaking, frame by frame. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: A beautiful spectacle that makes one think of God and Darwin in the same breath. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: There are sights here I will not easily forget. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Winged Migration is just a peek into the birds' view of things, and it's a precious one. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Arguably the most beautiful documentary ever made, Winged Migration has a 'wow!' factor that is off the charts. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Reminds us of the possibly primal connection between movies and the eternal dream of flight. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: Whether we're seeing a startled flock taking sudden flight or zapping into a mountain lake to catch fish, our eye is constantly bedazzled. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Though you learn less about the various species Perrin circled the globe to document than you might from an afternoon with Animal Planet, you become intensely chummy with the process and labor of flying. Read more