Look Into My Eyes
| Release Date: September 6, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
79
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Generally favorable reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
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15
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3
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzSep 6, 2024
It may seem fragmented, elusive, or “arty” to modern audiences who aren’t into older movies and have no reference point for what they’re watching. Hopefully not, though, because it’s an often profound and touching documentary that engages your attention differently than movies usually do. Read full review
91
The PlaylistBrian FarvourSep 6, 2024
The resulting film is truly as real as it gets. For a movie about the apparent world beyond our own, that’s saying more than any psychic could ever predict Read full review
90
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonJan 9, 2025
Ms. Wilson may put a viewer off balance with a lack of concrete detail, but it is a seduction technique that works, to satisfying effect. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleSep 18, 2024
Human connections are gifts, imagination is powerful and empathy isn’t a trick. These are the things Look Into My Eyes patiently communicates to us from its watchful perch. Read full review
90
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisSep 5, 2024
What I did not expect was to emerge with not only a deeper understanding of this strange calling, but far greater empathy for those who seek out its practitioners. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubBrianna ZiglerSep 8, 2024
All of the psychics are sensitive, artistic, outcasted people, who are more empathetic to the feelings of others than the average person might be. It makes their readings a space not just for potential supernatural experience, but one in which someone who is vulnerable and emotionally in need is being heard by someone who’s willing to receive them. Read full review
83
The Film StageJake Kring-SchreifelsJun 5, 2024
There are similar beautiful moments checkered across this five-borough endeavor. Read full review
83
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJun 5, 2024
Entrancing from the start but slow to reveal the full scope of Wilson’s vision, Look Into My Eyes locks into that furtively cinematic essence by framing its psychic readings with a stiff naturalism that recalls the interview scenes in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “After Life.” Read full review
80
IGNKatie RifeSep 8, 2024
Subtle and intuitive, this documentary about NYC psychics asks all the right questions. Read full review
80
The Daily BeastNick SchagerSep 5, 2024
[Its] genuine focus is the emotional turmoil that drives people to practice this profession as well as to patronize its “experts” in search of guidance and insights into the biggest questions of their lives. Read full review
80
Screen DailyNikki BaughanJun 5, 2024
While Wilson stays resolutely — and perhaps for some frustratingly — neutral about whether that link is forged by lived experience or spiritual ability, her film can be read as a celebration of human empathy and the power of shared connection. Read full review
75
Washington PostAmy NicholsonSep 13, 2024
The film stirs the soul less by the magic of ghosts than by the power of human connection. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineMarshall ShafferAug 31, 2024
Leave it to a documentarian to find subjects who profess a similar faith in the power of ecstatic rather than merely objective truth. Read full review
75
TheWrapAlejandra MartinezJun 5, 2024
By following this group of mediums Wilson doesn’t solve the mysteries of the universe, but she does do something remarkable: unveiling the very human desires and drives that motivate us to reach out for something bigger than ourselves. Read full review
70
VarietyGuy LodgeJun 5, 2024
Agnostic but empathetic, Wilson’s film suggests communing with the dead may just be a roundabout way of reaching the living. Read full review
60
Paste MagazineKatarina DocalovichSep 5, 2024
Look into My Eyes is a unique window into the minds of those who, like Wilson, experience a lot of feelings about the state of the world, but aren’t quite sure what to say or do about them. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerSep 12, 2024
It’s hard not to feel that Look Into My Eyes would pierce the veil with greater insight if Wilson wasn’t so credulous about everyone’s good intentions. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckJun 5, 2024
This is a documentary about psychics that make you think Ouija boards might be a better investment. Read full review
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