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14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlThe film ranges more widely than its predecessor, surveying more landscapes and a greater variety of projects. But it’s still a contemplative beauty, a chance to consider and be moved by a richer sort of connectedness than our lives typically allow.
- 88Boston GlobeTy BurrBoston GlobeTy BurrAs with the simpler and stronger “Rivers and Tides,” there are moments where you may want to stop the film to assure yourself you’re seeing what you’re seeing, so disordering to the senses are Goldsworthy’s re-orderings of nature.
- 80The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe New York TimesBen KenigsbergBecause time erases or alters Mr. Goldsworthy’s sculptures, movies are the ideal medium to capture them.... The surprise of Leaning Into the Wind is that it’s just as concerned with how time has changed Mr. Goldsworthy.
- 75IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichLeaning Into the Wind will inspire anyone who sees it to look for the beauty in every gust, to admire how nature constantly rearranges itself, and us along with it. Even at its most self-conflicted, this is a fascinating reminder that some art wasn’t made to be owned.
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreThe objects he assembles or carves out of stone will outlive him, but it’ll only be a hint of the mind that saw beauty in the destruction, decay and rebirth that nature itself was creating all around him.
- 75Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenThe film has a wandering, lonely purity. We feel as if we've been allowed to fleetingly swim through Andy Goldsworthy's psyche.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonSan Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonLeaning Into the Wind asks us to appreciate art for art’s sake, and that’s not a tough ask at all.
- 75RogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaRogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaThis is one of the most relaxing experiences I have had watching a movie in a long time.
- 70Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranEven if some things have changed, spending time with an artist who's concerned, as he's said in interviews, with "the permanence of temporary objects and the temporality of permanent objects," is always worth the journey.
- 70VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyRiedelsheimer is well-matched to Goldsworthy’s methods and interests.