Time and Water
National Geographic | Release Date: May 29, 2026 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The Irish TimesTara BradyJun 11, 2026
Dosa and her editors resist catastrophising, allowing cracking ice, flowing water and silence to shoulder the film’s emotional weight. Read full review
80
Little White LiesAnna StaffordJun 11, 2026
By reframing climate change as a crisis of memory, Dosa achieves what many climate documentaries struggle to accomplish. This is not a eulogy for a lost world, but a reminder of our responsibility to remember it. Read full review
88
The Seattle TimesChase HutchinsonJun 10, 2026
Dosa’s film shouts loud and true, giving it a strong chance at enduring — even as it remains painfully aware there is no guarantee anything, no matter how much we love it, lasts forever. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleJun 6, 2026
Dosa’s film is a meditation on change — both the kind that we accept with a heavy heart and something more general. Time and Water is a curiously vibrant elegy, teeming with appreciation for the intimate majesty that is all life, generational and geologic. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonJun 3, 2026
Utilizing Magnason’s voluminous supply of home movies and supplementing it with cinematographer Pablo Alvarez-Mesa’s spectacular footage of Icelandic landscapes, Dosa portrays the passing of a way of life that hints at an uncertain planetary future. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesJun 2, 2026
Even at a short hour and a half runtime, the film can meander like glacier melt; a somewhat sedate pace for such an urgent topic. Intentionally or not, it gives the film the feeling not of a warning, but of a foregone conclusion: a eulogy. Read full review
80
VarietyMurtada ElfadlMay 29, 2026
In telling this one family’s story and examining their connection to the land they were born into, Dosa makes an affecting documentary about a looming danger that many are ignoring. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comZachary LeeMay 29, 2026
Time and Water is very much a project trying to capture memory, time, and history, even as it melts before your eyes. Read full review
100
IndieWireMarya E. GatesMay 28, 2026
A nature doc mixed with autobiography, “Time and Water” is a poetic musing on intergenerational memory, a whimsical, yet staunchly political elegy for the glaciers, and a mournful look at the Earth in all her majesty and mystery. Read full review
91
The Film StageDan MeccaMay 28, 2026
Time and Water often feels like a celebration, a reminder of what’s right in front of us. Whether it be glaciers or grandmas or flowers or children, there is love somewhere nearby. In lesser hands, this all may play a bit cloying. Luckily, Dosa is deft in her ability. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubJacob OllerMay 28, 2026
Dosa’s film—which she wrote alongside Magnason, Jocelyne Chaput, and Erin Casper—sometimes strains a bit too visibly to connect this theme, becoming so enraptured with the encapsulating power of ice that the film protests too much about its own profundity. Read full review
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