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Critic Reviews
Nov 15, 2024
Nov 18, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Rather too much time is spent repeating staged close-ups of a left hand sketching in ink or applying paint, or else executing inscrutable mirror-writing on parchment — Leonardo’s secretive signature method — coupled with explanatory voice-over. .... Part 2, “Painter-God,” is the more satisfying, zeroing in on the experimentation that drove his unique art and engineering, which fantasized flying machines, weapons of war and designs for urban infrastructure.
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Nov 18, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Given such astonishing material, Ken Burns — of all people — feels the need to hype it up. The temptation is understandable. The giving in to it is not. The first rule of nonfiction, on screen no less than on the page, is you trust your material. .... To the extent “Leonardo” shows us the results of that seeing, it can be transcendently good. To the extent it distracts from those results, it’s another departure for Burns: a real disappointment.
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Nov 18, 2024
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