Explorer
Universal Pictures Content Group | Release Date (Streaming): August 30, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
81
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 5 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The TelegraphRobbie CollinAug 31, 2022
Fiennes is admirably open throughout, with seemingly no thought of a public image to burnish. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comNell MinowAug 31, 2022
The organization of the film, jumping back and forth in time, is distracting. But the subject is never less than enthralling. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeAug 31, 2022
The approach of director Matthew Dyas, who gives the archive material the appearance of found footage, adds to the mythic romance of Fiennes’s life story. Read full review
80
EmpireIan FreerAug 31, 2022
If it adds little in the way of dissenting voices or a different viewpoint, Explorer tells the tale of a remarkable, stranger-than-fiction life and emerges as an affecting, entertaining portrait of a true eccentric. Read full review
60
The GuardianCath ClarkeAug 31, 2022
There’s plenty of white-knuckle footage from the archive, as well as reflections of old muckers. Fiennes says that in his darkest, diciest moments in peril he imagined his heroes – the father and grandfather he never met – watching over him. Read full review
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