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By Andrew Parker (194) for The Gate (178) on 09 Oct 2018

Visually bracing and psychologically fascinating in equal measure…

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By Kelly Vance (1,015) for East Bay Express (1,012) on 09 Oct 2018

Free Solo is an excellent follow-up to the remarkable Meru, and a nail-biting cinematic experience in its own right…

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By Alan French (85) for AwardsCircuit.com (450) on 09 Oct 2018

The story will grip you, Honnold will fascinate, and Chin and Vasarhelyi establish themselves as two of the premier documentarians in this field…

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By Evan Bush (2) for The Seattle Times (964) on 09 Oct 2018

Despite the gravity-defying cinematography and alpine setting, Free Solo transcends the climbing world and intimately examines something universal…

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By Tom Russo (407) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 04 Oct 2018

Go figure that the year’s most outrageously harrowing action movie turns out to be an arthouse doc from National Geographic…

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By James Verniere (1,180) for Boston Herald (1,433) on 04 Oct 2018

You decide if it's an athletic achievement or a suicide attempt. From the people who brought us Meru. Unforgettable…

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By Alan Zilberman (171) for Brightest Young Things (103) on 04 Oct 2018

This is the rare documentary that is more terrifying than a horror movie…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 02 Oct 2018

The pure athletics of Free Solo, which chronicles Honnold’s months-long training regimen as well as his subsequent attempts, would be spectacle…

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By Mike Mcgranaghan (1,821) for Aisle Seat (1,783) on 30 Sep 2018

Both a heart-stopping adventure and a riveting psychological portrait of a man driven to push himself to the edge…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 27 Sep 2018

The result is a documentary that’s fascinated with its subject without being reverent, one that’s beautifully photographed (the way that…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 27 Sep 2018

The movie does a superb job showing the mental and physical preparation and effort required…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 27 Sep 2018

If mountain-climbing docs make you puke-dizzy, this one is is probably not a good idea…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue (704) on 27 Sep 2018

visually breathtaking and consistently compelling, even if it never quite reaches its emotional peak…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 26 Sep 2018

Both intimate and expansive, Free Solo is a documentary beautifully calculated to literally take your breath away. And it does…

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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for New York Times (5,786) on 26 Sep 2018

Despite a somewhat soft middle section, Free Solo is an engaging study of a perfect match between passion and personality…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 26 Sep 2018

In the end, the answer may be only slightly deeper than “because it’s there”, but for 100 nerve-racking minutes, Free Solo brings us…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 26 Sep 2018

Free Solo would be an exceptional piece of filmmaking if it confined itself to the physical poetry of Mr. Honnold’s achievements…

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By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Denerstein Unleashed (254) on 26 Sep 2018

I'm not sure that free soloing shouldn't be recognized as a form of insanity, but Free Solo holds your attention -- for every gut-wrenching…

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By Josephine Livingstone (57) for The New Republic (897) on 25 Sep 2018

The classic tension between the sublime and the human spirit breaks down. Man, rock, camera: they're old suspects, but here they seem made anew…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 25 Sep 2018

To watch Honnold think through each ledge of his climbs can stop the heart; to watch him navigate human emotion might melt it…

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