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26 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisSublimely beautiful and profoundly moving, it offers you the opportunity to look — at animals, yes, but also at qualities that are often subordinated in narratively driven movies, at textures, shapes and light.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenNo party-line screed, Gunda is a soul-stirring meditation on some of our most underappreciated fellow earthlings. For many viewers, it could well be life-changing too.
- 90Screen DailyJonathan RomneyScreen DailyJonathan RomneyYou don’t have to be an animal lover to appreciate the craft and the genuine poetic vision of a film which, though strictly unsentimental, is intensely moving, transfixing and quite genuinely unique.
- 90Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternAn improbably beautiful work of barnyard art.
- 88LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenLarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenIt’s all incredibly immersive, to the point that these everyday farm animals—the sort that usually only receive a passing glance—begin to seem fascinatingly alien.
- 83The A.V. ClubA.A. DowdThe A.V. ClubA.A. DowdYou won’t learn much from Gunda. It’s an arty pastoral mood piece, not an educational tool. Which is not to imply it lacks a philosophy.
- 75The Associated PressJake CoyleThe Associated PressJake CoyleGunda ultimately falls somewhere between banal and profound. Maybe it’s both.
- 63Slant MagazineKeith WatsonSlant MagazineKeith WatsonBy the time the credits roll on the film, we realize we’ve been watching not so much a sketch of the lives of farm animals as a threnody for their deaths.