The Playlist by Joe Blessing

The Truffle Hunters is a charming, life-affirming film, a look at an enduring folkway that brings fun and flavor to Italians every year.

Chicago Tribune by Katie Walsh

A cinematic delicacy as rare as the truffle itself.

The Associated Press by Jake Coyle

Just as last year’s beekeeping beauty Honeyland, The Truffle Hunters is a richly allegorical documentary of a vanishing agricultural pastime.

Washington Post by Ann Hornaday

This endearing, thoroughly entertaining movie might be what we all need right now: An invitation to stop and smell the roses — or, if you’re lucky, their far less showy fungal cousins.

The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney

Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw (The Last Race) directed, produced and shot this captivating vérité documentary, which finds humor, charm and poignancy in the crusty eccentrics and their adored canine companions who sniff out the aromatic tubers, usually under the secretive cloak of night.

Arizona Republic by Bill Goodykoontz

It’s a sumptuous movie, with gorgeous cinematography (also by Dweck and Kershaw). It won’t necessarily make you want to rush out and pay a fortune for truffles to shave over your eggs. But it will make you appreciate people whose love for something has so fully informed their lives.

New York Magazine (Vulture) by Helen Shaw

Any good documentary teaches you how to pay attention to something, which is why this one feels like such an overwhelming experience: It teaches you to pay attention to the world, all of it all at once.

Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern

It’s rare that a film mixes joy and melancholy with such ease, and to such lovely effect.

Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer

What I ultimately took away from the documentary is the deep love that can exist between owners and their dogs. In The Truffle Hunters, both are shown to be the custodians of each other’s happiness.

LarsenOnFilm by Josh Larsen

The Truffle Hunters has a great subject—aging Italian foragers and their dogs, carrying on the storied tradition of searching forests for the rare fungi—but its true strength is in its compositions.

The Film Stage by Jordan Raup

These men have dedicated their entire lives to not only finding these exquisite white Alba truffles but also to the dogs that help them find their way, and to see their culture upturned for selfish reasons is an upsetting thing to witness. That they still have so much personality, joy, and life in them, however, makes The Truffle Hunters a delightful, charming watch.

Film Threat by Alex Saveliev

The Truffle Hunters is about sustaining tradition in a world that seems to (d)evolve too fast. It's about mortality, but it's never morbid. It's about fungi, but it's never dull. It takes you away from the hustle and bustle of the contemporary, social-media-driven society and plunges you into the woodsy stillness of Northern Italy. You don't have to love truffles to crave a little bit of that beautiful solitude.

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

A strange, funny, mysterious and rather beautiful film about an activity that’s recherché to say the least.

Variety by Tomris Laffly

It’s a complex picture that Dweck and Kershaw navigate with respect, curiosity and a sense of awe, managing to excavate the essence of a tight-knit, lovably atypical commune out of it.

Screen Daily by Lee Marshall

The Truffle Hunters is a film as distinctive and lingering as the scent of the rare tuber that inspires it.

The A.V. Club by A.A. Dowd

The Truffle Hunters is more eccentric and lyrical than its logline might suggest.

Slant Magazine by Carson Lund

The film’s reminder of the fragility of agrarian traditions in the face of a merciless profit motive is delivered with tact and subtlety.