Helvetica 2007

Critics score:
88 / 100

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Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: Helvetica is one of those rare films in which the exploration of a specific topic leads to expanding horizons of perception. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: By rounding up a great group of eloquent obsessives eager to explain their feelings about a font, Hustwit has come up with 80 unexpectedly blissful minutes. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The computer revolution may have democratized graphic design, letting anyone decorate his own desktop or MySpace page, but a certain amount of conformity is necessary for society to function. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Even viewers who've never given a serif a second thought are in for an exclamation point of joy from such a well-designed doc. Read more

Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times: A splendid documentary about one typeface, designed in 1957 in Switzerland. Read more

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Julia Wallace, Village Voice: Helvetica keenly distills the eternal aesthetic battle between the classical and the baroque and explores what happens when a revolution goes mainstream. Read more