Leonardo da Vinci
  • Network: PBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Nov 18, 2024
Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10

Critic Reviews

  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Mark Feeney
    Nov 18, 2024
    50
    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.
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Philip Kennicott
    Nov 18, 2024
    50
    No film can cover everything, but “Leonardo da Vinci” directors Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon might have saved time for a few deeper dives if they had simply cut the superfluous idolatry from too many of their talking-head interview subjects.