Village Voice by April Wolfe

Hockney is a little work of art of its own, even if it's so very nice and happy about everything.

Total Film by James Mottram

Both revealing and good-natured, its a very inviting exploration of one of the 20th Centurys major artists.

The Telegraph by Robbie Collin

“Everyone is looking all the time; you just have to train yourself to look harder,” Hockney explains. This warm, affectionate, perceptive film makes looking harder look easy.

Washington Post by Pat Padua

The documentary Hockney presents such an immersive portrait of its subject — artist David Hockney — that by the end of the film it feels like we are looking at the world through his eyes.

Chicago Sun-Times by Richard Roeper

This is a sunny, admiring documentary about the British (and Los Angeles) treasure David Hockney, who remains productive at 78, is candid and entertaining in interview segments and seems utterly content and grateful for the life he’s had and the artistry he’s been gifted with.

Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

Hockney is less interested in providing a conventional top-to-bottom narrative than in capturing a sense of who Hockney is and what is important to him.

The Hollywood Reporter by Leslie Felperin

An officially sanctioned but pleasingly gush-free cinematic monograph.

Boston Globe by Mark Feeney

That we don’t hear more from Ruscha is one of the documentary’s flaws. Hockney, the subject, is like a great painting. Hockney, the documentary, is a pretty plain frame.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

When it deepens its intellectual focus, Hockney begins to lose coherence, with rushed sequences that cover his stage designs, his landscapes and his experiments with photography.

Time Out London by Cath Clarke

There are beautiful moments from David Hockney’s home-video stash in this thoughtful doc.

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

It’s an engaging and garrulous film, and Hockney is now a cheerful, grandfatherly figure, and an object lesson in taking the boy out of Bradford, and not the other way around.

The Film Stage by Michael Snydel

There’s no doubt Hockney deserves appreciation for his artistic influence, but this documentary is less a reflection of his singular presence than the result of haphazardly mashing together a fascinating life.

Slant Magazine by Clayton Dillard

After a nearly virtuoso opening, it reduces passages of the painter's life into multiple montages of pop pabulum.