More Than Honey 2012

Peter Keough, Boston Globe: Markus Imhoof's inventive and powerful documentary ... Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: A fascinating but rambling documentary about the decimation of the world's bee population through the phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Imhoof's film is remarkable in its close-up photography. The bees loom large, like creatures from some mutant planet; dangle together in a delicate chain; and fill the air, floating like unusually vivid dust specks. Read more

Jay Weissberg, 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. Read more

Mike D'Angelo, AV Club: As a nature doc, More Than Honey rivals such acclaimed forebears as Winged Migration and Microcosmos, though it's working with a more limited scope, visually-if you've seen one honeybee, you've seen 'em all. Read more

John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: Eye-popping photography should draw viewers to this thoughtful, revealing doc. Read more

Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: Oblique narrative aside, you can't beat the film's eye-popping visuals. Read more

Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic: [Markus] Imhoof makes bees more important than they have previously seemed. Read more

Mark Jenkins, NPR: An amiably shaggy combination of science lesson, whimsical musing and alarm bell ... Read more

Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post: 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. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: "More Than Honey" may be the most visually beautiful documentary ever made. Read more

Cath Clarke, Time Out: Summer's blitz of apocalypse movies has nothing on this bee doc. Read more

Sam Adams, 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. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice: 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. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: What's really frightening about Honey isn't what a hive of angry bees might do to us, but what we've done to them. Read more