Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt

The film would be more informative if it put Goldsworthy into the broader context of modernist art movements. It's visually ravishing from start to finish, though.

San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann

Enchanting documentary that also serves as an animated gallery of Goldsworthy’s uniquely ephemeral art.

Baltimore Sun by Michael Sragow

In its own quiet, voluptuous way, Rivers and Tides, an unpretentiously brilliant documentary, uses the work of Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy to open up the hidden drama of the natural universe.

Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

Intoxicating and meditative by turns, helped by Fred Frith's minimalist score, this film opens a portal into a singular creative mind.

Washington Post by Desson Thomson

Watch this film. You may never look at nature indifferently again.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

Watching this movie is like daydreaming.

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

Thoughtful and entertaining documentary.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Liam Lacey

A beautiful, probing art documentary.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by William Arnold

Mesmerizing and curiously satisfying idyll that gradually, slyly maneuvers us into a whole new way of looking at the delicate relationship between man, art and Mother Nature.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

As the film's images accumulate, the movie becomes a sustained and ultimately refreshing meditation on surrender to the idea of temporality.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

Fred Frith's lovely and subdued score is a perfect accompaniment.

Chicago Tribune

I know of no documentary on a contemporary artist that conveys so much about the artist's work so lyrically and directly.