Taken strictly as a docu about a key Buddhist ritual, Wheel of Time is a perfectly pleasant, educational film, featuring pretty pictures, exotic locations and interview footage with the Dalai Lama himself. As a Werner Herzog film, it's flat and disappointing.
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Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Riveting and unique.
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Patient and fascinated, but never succumbing to abstraction, Wheel of Time can be seen as the middle installment of a trilogy against nature.
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Mesmerizing.
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The New York Times by Stephen Holden
The movie might as well have been called "An Immersion in Tibetan Buddhism." With minimal explanation, it puts you right in the center.
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Call it a spiritual Woodstock.
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San Francisco Chronicle by Walter Addiego
Mesmerizing documentary.