Seeds
Interior Films | Release Date: January 16, 2026 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
90
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Rolling StoneDavid FearJan 20, 2026
Seeds is, at the abundant heart of it all, a work of protest art and political activism through sheer poetry. Attention must be paid. Read full review
100
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeFeb 1, 2025
Seeds is not a journalistic investigation but a poetic contemplation. Read full review
91
The PlaylistChristian GallichioFeb 19, 2025
Seeds may be indebted to the elder subjects that Shyne centralizes, but it’s also a film that dares to look forward, suggesting that — despite everything — these farms will continue. Read full review
91
IndieWireEsther ZuckermanFeb 1, 2025
It’s an incredibly rewarding journey, a film indebted to the past that feels brilliantly alive. Read full review
90
The New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonJan 16, 2026
Though Seeds is a lyrical portrait of a way of life, it also harbors an urgency that’s very much of our moment. Read full review
90
Screen RantGregory NussenJan 16, 2026
Shyne is less concerned with a unified story, instead dipping in and out of her subject’s lives and in the process giving us a much more involved experience of a fading subculture. Read full review
90
VarietyLisa KennedyFeb 1, 2025
Although there are urgent economic and political challenges facing these families, this isn’t muckraking cinema. Instead, the filmmaker hews to the quotidian, the weekly, the annual. Shot in black and white, this portrait of a people is affecting and achy. Read full review
90
Screen DailyAllan HunterFeb 1, 2025
Seeds is a sweet, meditative elegy for a way of life that is fast disappearing. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoJan 16, 2026
These moments have a tactile intimacy that’s incredibly powerful, placing these ordinary people in an almost timeless continuum of seemingly ordinary behavior that becomes extraordinary in memory, or through the eyes of a camera. Read full review
83
The Film StageJohn FinkFeb 5, 2025
Seeds is a film that lives and breathes as we absorb the wisdom of these elders. Read full review
80
The GuardianPhuong LeJan 20, 2026
Echoing the cycle of crop cultivation, Shyne’s film inhabits the seasons of life, bookended by images of a funeral and the open sky. This vanishing way of life is imbued with a dose of melancholy, yet hope still remains for a better harvest in the future. Read full review
80
Next Best PictureCody DericksDec 30, 2025
This quietly moving documentary takes a hands-off approach, which allows audiences to organically meet the film on its level. This method lets the farmers subtly present the central conflict that’s most affecting their lives and livelihoods. The gorgeous black-and-white photography gives the film an appropriate sense of timelessness. Read full review
80
ColliderJason GorberFeb 6, 2025
On the one hand, Seeds provides a unique glimpse into one family’s joys and struggles, while on the other it delves delicately yet effectively into larger questions of policy, politics, the scars of the past, and the challenges of the present. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineAlexander MooneyJan 20, 2026
Brittany Shyne’s lens is held rapt by the ramblings and insights of the elderly, but it springs to life when it’s turned toward the next generation, whose future is of utmost concern in light of the socioeconomic tensions documented by the film. Read full review
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