Skywalkers: A Love Story
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): July 12, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
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9
Negative:
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Film ThreatBobby LePireJan 26, 2024
Skywalkers: A Love Story is riveting and engrossing. The cinematography is beautiful, capturing the wonder and danger of being so high. The editing is sublime. Read full review
90
VarietyOwen GleibermanJan 26, 2024
The film’s exhilaration is that it shows you, through its dangling-from-a-steel-beam footage, what love really is: scaling the heights of devotion, no matter how perilous, without a net. Read full review
88
The Daily BeastNick SchagerJan 19, 2024
It's a thriller, a heist caper, and a surprisingly moving romance all in one, and it seems destined to be one of the breakout hits of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Read full review
85
SlashfilmBen PearsonJan 26, 2024
Skywalkers: A Love Story is a dizzying and dazzling look at a hyper-niche culture that delivers some of the most jaw-dropping real-life footage you'll likely ever see. Read full review
80
ColliderTaylor GatesJul 19, 2024
There’s an edgier, grittier, and more thought-provoking movie hiding in here somewhere — about chasing adrenaline and the commodification of your body, safety, and existence — but what we get is still plenty entertaining. Read full review
76
PolygonZosha MillmanJan 31, 2024
It helps a lot that the filmmakers have footage of the couple and their climbs going back to 2015. That sense of scale does a lot to put their growth, both personally and professionally, on full display. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeJan 26, 2024
That Skywalkers: A Love Story maintains its grip on your attention despite some of director Jeff Zimbalist’s florid aesthetic choices testifies to the strength of the documentary’s central narrative. Read full review
65
Paste MagazineNatalia KeoganJul 17, 2024
Skywalkers: A Love Story certainly delivers on its promise of exhilarating footage of high-flying adventure-seekers. Read full review
60
EmpireJohn NugentJul 22, 2024
An unorthodox romance that will leave you sweaty-palmed and tearful, in equal measure. It doesn’t quite reach the heights it could, but there’s a hell of a view at the top. Read full review
60
Vanity FairRichard LawsonJul 19, 2024
Skywalkers might be the first of a new genre: extended vlog (or TikTok, or Instragram reel) as feature film, existing somewhere between fact and fiction and all in service of promoting a brand. Read full review
60
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeJul 18, 2024
Nobody will walk away from Skywalkers: A Love Story raving about its soap-opera shenanigans. But as an exercise in physical unsettlement it could hardly be bettered. Read full review
60
The GuardianRadheyan SimonpillaiJul 16, 2024
You get the impression they are only comfortable sharing their lives when they’re perched above where the rest of us live. But I’d be lying if I said I didn’t find them swoon-worthy, never mind the cryptocurrencies and branded partnerships circling their pursuits. Read full review
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The Film StageJordan RaupJan 29, 2024
Jeff Zimbalist and Maria Bukhonina’s new documentary attempts to elucidate the thought process behind these daredevil theatrics. Yet it ends up doing more to glorify and celebrate their life-threatening, thrill-seeking actions than interrogate the complexity of why they have devoted their existence to an insane diversion that has seen many of their friends fall to their deaths. Read full review
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IndieWireEsther ZuckermanJan 26, 2024
"Skywalkers” also seems to gloss over too much. It never fully probes the mental state that drives someone to do this kind of thing in the first place, instead dealing with the squabbles that nearly wreck their union. Read full review
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New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriJul 22, 2024
Their story seems genuine, but the filmmaking can make it all feel premeditated, in part because directors Jeff Zimbalist and Maria Bukhonina are determined to hit every plot turn at the most obvious points. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comNell MinowJul 19, 2024
We can never quite settle into the connection to the couple because while it makes it indisputably clear, despite some claims of Photoshopping, that they really do scale the tallest and most iconic structures in the world, there is a discomfiting artificiality to the storytelling. Read full review
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Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganJan 26, 2024
Zimbalist’s film is all about the highs: at no point will it dig deep. There is zero sense of perspective past the obvious. Read full review
38
The Associated PressJake CoyleJul 17, 2024
The force is not strong in “Skywalkers: A Love Story,” a shallow “Man on Wire” for social media influencers about a pair of Russian daredevils who stealthily scale urban heights to attain the precious treasure of a much-liked Instagram post. Read full review
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