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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    Delightful. Read full review

  • 100
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    The sight is magical and heartbreaking in equal measure. Look, the movie says: Where so many would fall, a man walks on air. Read full review

  • 100
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    James Marsh's documentary raises the bar for the genre to skyscraper height. Read full review

  • 100
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    Thanks to Marsh's sensitive storytelling, Man on Wire manages to put Petit's performance into another, more ineffable realm: What began as a caper turned into poetry, and poetry became a prayer. Read full review

  • 100
    Variety | Robert Koehler

    One of the most wildly entertaining docs of recent years. Read full review

  • 100
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    This is a police procedural, if you will, about what's been called the artistic crime of the century. Read full review

  • 100
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    The gorgeous music includes Ralph Vaughan Williams' wafting tone poem ''The Lark Ascending'' -- apt in describing an artist who might well be part bird. Read full review

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Man on Wire is about the vanquishing of the towers by bravery and joy, not by terrorism. Read full review

  • 90
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    Thorough, understated and altogether enthralling documentary. Read full review

  • 88
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Carrie Rickey

    He had the fearlessness of a 104-story man and something more than a daredevil's brass. Read full review

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