New York Post by Sara Stewart

Many of the images — and Salgado’s accounts of taking them — are as soul-shattering as they are breathtaking.

Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern

Stunning and, in the aggregate, almost overwhelming. This is not a feel-good travelogue, and Mr. Salgado has never pretended to be a cockeyed optimist.

Philadelphia Inquirer by Tirdad Derakhshani

The Salt of the Earth, has the power to draw you into its world, transfix, and perhaps eventually transform you.

Empire by David Hughes

Some of his Salgado's depictions of human suffering are not for the faint-hearted but, like this fine film, demand to be seen. Unmissable.

Entertainment Weekly by Chris Nashawaty

With this heartbreaking yet hopeful new documentary about his life’s work, Salgado shares the stories behind these split-second black-and-white moments, giving them even more dimension.

The Playlist by Rodrigo Pérez

The Salt of The Earth is a mesmeric and unforgettable look at the world and it sufferings through the eyes of a remarkably insightful and honorable artist.

Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer

Most of the photographs on view in The Salt of the Earth bear witness to great suffering, and what they exalt is not the photographer’s eye but the fearful humanity that binds us all.

Portland Oregonian by Jeff Baker

The Salt of the Earth presents not just a passing of time through one man's remarkable life but a change of perspective.

Charlotte Observer by Lawrence Toppman

This Oscar-nominated documentary does everything you want a documentary to do. It introduces us to a compelling character and, by the finish, allows us to feel we know him well. It makes larger points about the human toil and suffering he shot for most of his career, before he turned to nature to refresh himself.

Village Voice by Stephanie Zacharek

The movie Wenders and Juliano have made is a tribute that feels both grand and modest in scale: Just as Salgado's photographs do, it extends the notion of friends and family to include every citizen of the world.

Variety by Jay Weissberg

Wim Wenders’ mastery of the documentary form is again on display in The Salt of the Earth.

Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

The Salt of the Earth deals with two kinds of journeys the photographer made. The outward one may have literally taken him to the furthest corners of the Earth and resulted in the stunning images the film features, but it is the inward journey that paralleled it that completely holds our attention.

The Hollywood Reporter by Boyd van Hoeij

The Salt of the Earth doesn’t reveal so much as gracefully confirm that the empathy and humanism that make Salgado’s photojournalistic work so special are also a part of the artist’s outlook on life.

The Guardian by Andrew Pulver

The co-operation between Wenders and Salgado Jr works well, mixing the former's heavyweight presence as both interviewer and storyteller, and the latter's ability to harvest intimate, deep-buried subtleties that may otherwise not have seen the light of day. Together they have made a moving tribute to a peerless talent.

Slant Magazine by Clayton Dillard

It evolves into an intimate reverie on family and aesthetics, while remaining sporadically attuned to the reflexive and ethical dimensions of ethnographic discovery.

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

The Salt of the Earth leaves no doubt about Mr. Salgado’s talent or decency, and the chance to spend time in his company is a reason for gratitude. And yet his pictures, precisely because they disclose harsh and unwelcome truths, deserve a harder, more robustly critical look.