All Light, Everywhere
Super LTD | Release Date: June 4, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
76
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
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11
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2
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
89
Austin ChronicleJosh KupeckiJun 17, 2021
All Light, Everywhere’s roaming tangents always return to the heart (or the eye) of the matter, and that skill of orchestration is no mean feat. Read full review
100
CineVueChristopher MachellJul 26, 2022
All Light, Everywhere is, most importantly, a history of our technological attempts to offer objective views of the world. But instead of charting our striving to capture of reality, what is revealed is its fabrication. Read full review
75
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenJun 9, 2021
All Light, Everywhere is very smart and extremely meta (Anthony often films himself and his crew setting up a shot, to emphasize the observational point), though it can be a bit dry. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangJun 3, 2021
If perception has its limitations, this deeply sobering, stimulating film suggests, that may be another way of saying that it is fundamentally limitless. There is so much — too much — to see here, and no end of vantages from which to see it. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzJun 7, 2021
It's to the credit of Anthony, who wrote and edited as well as directed, and his cinematographer Corey Hughes, that you come away thinking about parts of the film that felt like cut-able digressions and undergraduate musings when you were watching them. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineChuck BowenMay 10, 2021
Theo Anthony’s film is a playful, enraging, free-associative cine-essay that both expands and eats itself alive as it proceeds. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubLawrence GarciaJun 1, 2021
All Light, Everywhere is about both making and questioning connections, but by the end, its methods feel not so much productively protean as frustratingly noncommittal. Read full review
75
The Associated PressJake CoyleJun 2, 2021
It’s an exploration that touches not just on policing and justice, but astronomy, politics, phrenology and race. Read full review
60
The GuardianPhuong LeJul 19, 2022
While the effort put into research for this documentary is commendable, ultimately the aestheticisation of the information dampens its impact. Read full review
70
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJun 3, 2021
In a manner that is patient — and sometimes even playful — rather than polemical, “All Light, Everywhere” contributes to debates about crime, policing, racism and accountability. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeJul 26, 2022
It springs restlessly between ideas and, while it doesn’t quite cohere into a neat central thesis, the film did leave me with both the means and the inclination to do some further thinking on the subject. Read full review
60
TimeStephanie ZacharekJun 4, 2021
Anthony—whose previous documentary, Rat Film, traced the history of Baltimore via the city’s relationship to its rodent residents—has fashioned a thoughtful, if sometimes frustrating, meditation on the acts of “seeing” and “interpreting,” particularly as they apply to law enforcement and the criminal-justice system. Read full review
90
Vanity FairCassie da CostaJun 4, 2021
All Light, Everywhere is a tremendous work that anyone merely curious about the various relationships the government has to both private industry and an enormous public ought to see. Read full review
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