100
New York Post by Farran Smith Nehme
Without any preachiness, this magically beautiful film urges us to take better care of the bees, and honor the irreplaceable things that they do for us.
More Than Honey
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- Switzerland,
- Germany,
- Austria
- 2012
- · 90m
Director
Markus Imhoof
Cast
Fred Jaggi,
Randolf Menzel,
John Miller,
Liane Singer,
Heidrun Singer
Genre
Documentary
With dazzling nature photography, Oscar–nominated director Markus Imhoof (The Boat Is Full) takes a global examination of endangered honeybees — spanning California, Switzerland, China and Australia — in an in-depth documentary more ambitious than any previous work on the topic.
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80
Village Voice by Stephanie Zacharek
More Than Honey isn't just 91 minutes of dead bees. Who could bear that? Instead, it's a delightful, informative, and suitably contemplative study of the bee world and the bee-population crisis, though in the end it does offer enough dewdrops of hope to fill up a bluebell or two.
80
Total Film by Simon Kinnear
Astonishing macro-photography captures the bees in all their surreal beauty, presenting a tribute to nature’s “messenger of love” and a warning of what might be lost.
75
Boston Globe by Peter Keough
Though overloaded with narration, “Honey” triumphs visually, with stunning shots of bees in flight, tracked in slow motion, “Winged Migration”-style, by who-knows-what technical wizardry.
75
The A.V. Club by Mike D'Angelo
It’s a film that wants to celebrate as much as doom-say.
75
Slant Magazine by Drew Hunt
Markus Imhoof's film reveals itself as a curious, audacious mix of personal essay film and nature documentary.
75
Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan
It’s an informative, if slightly unstructured, narrative, yet it plays more like a horror story.
70
Variety
Most striking in “Honey” are closeups of the bees in their hives, symbiotically working together in creating their new queen: Imhoof rightfully spends time detailing the extraordinary nature of bee social structure.
70
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
A film whose fascination with bees and their mammoth impact on the global food chain extends far beyond the subject of colony collapse disorder. Arthouse audiences will eat it up.
70
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
A fascinating but rambling documentary.
70
Variety by Staff [Not Credited]
Most striking in “Honey” are closeups of the bees in their hives, symbiotically working together in creating their new queen: Imhoof rightfully spends time detailing the extraordinary nature of bee social structure.
65
NPR by Mark Jenkins
The documentary's most memorable vignette is suitably unnerving: a visit to northern China, where the threatened disappearance of bees has already come to pass, leaving workers to pollinate fruit trees ... by hand.
60
Time Out
Although the unexplained collapse of honeybee colonies is a global problem, the most startling moments in Markus Imhoof’s documentary take place on a microscopic level.
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