The White Diamond
Wellspring Media | Release Date: June 1, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
83
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Touching, transfixing, unique. Read full review
90
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
An inexpressibly beautiful and moving film, even though (or because) it seems to be about someone unimportant doing something irrelevant, perhaps something silly, in the face of insurmountable odds and a world that doesn't care. Read full review
90
The New YorkerAnthony Lane
Werner Herzog may lack heroes, nowadays, who seem adequate to his fierce capacity for wonder. When occasion demands, however, he can still turn the world upside down. Read full review
88
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
One of the year's best documentaries. Read full review
80
VarietyRussell Edwards
Herzog's eye for the weird sometimes makes the docu feel strained, but engaging characters imbue the pic with depth and emotional appeal. Read full review
80
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
Having emerged from his new German cinema heyday as one of the world's most guileless and original documentary filmmakers, Herzog has slowly been crafting a four-dimensional fresco of the planet, its most human-resistant landscapes, and our dubious dramas in confronting the chaos. Read full review
80
The New York TimesDana Stevens
The film, which includes some breathtakingly beautiful images of the green, wet Guyanese jungle and a monumental waterfall that cuts through it, is driven less by narrative than by ideas and impressions. Read full review
80
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
An intoxicating dream of a film that speaks to the daydreamer in all of us. Read full review
80
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Herzog also finds extraordinary beauty in what Dorrington is trying to accomplish: Like Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his boat, Dorrington wants to float around the natural world in a reverie, and when he finally does, he experiences a connection with Plage that's genuinely transcendent. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Although The White Diamond is entire of itself, it earns its place among the other treasures and curiosities in Herzog's work. Here is one of the most inquisitive filmmakers alive, a man who will go to incredible lengths to film people living at the extremes. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
This 2004 video documentary by Werner Herzog arrives in town while his hair-raising "Grizzly Man" is still playing, and it's a fascinating companion piece even though his manipulations are more obvious. Read full review
63
New York PostKyle Smith
Magnificent shots of waterfalls and other natural phenomena abound, but it's far too late in the history of nature photography to expect anyone to gawk at them. Read full review
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