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- 85TheWrapRonda Racha PenriceTheWrapRonda Racha PenriceRegardless of your political leanings or affiliations, Fauci is an education on what civil service looks like. And Dr. Anthony Fauci leads the pack.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThis is a celebratory film, and it’s easy to agree with its praise for Fauci’s intellectual heroism, especially when reactionary anti-science charlatanism is running rampant across the internet and the political right. But the documentary maybe doesn’t nail the historical paradox at its centre: Fauci has been vilified twice in his life, from different directions.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonSan Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonThe strength of Fauci is its underlying theme, which is really not about Fauci at all. Hoffman and Tobias jump back and forth in time, from the AIDS to Ebola to the COVID years, and surreptitiously a portrait emerges of the uneasy relationship between the scientific community, the general public and the political establishment.
- 75CNNBrian LowryCNNBrian LowryFauci makes no pretense about where its sentiments lie, lauding a figure whose critics have seemingly twisted his image beyond recognition in their attempts to demonize him.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterDaniel FienbergThe Hollywood ReporterDaniel FienbergWhile it’s occasionally stuck in very rote biographical details and frequently limited by a race to theaters and TV that doesn’t necessarily align with any real ending to the documentary’s story, Fauci has an actual structural focus that’s smartly considered and interesting, even if it left me with myriad questions.
- 70Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonMore informational than revealing, John Hoffman and Janet Tobias’ documentary makes the case that in times of great uncertainty concerning mysterious diseases, calm reason and unassailable science are our staunchest allies — two assets the 80-year-old immunologist possesses to ample degree.
- 70VarietyChris WillmanVarietyChris WillmanIt’s a documentary that merits a place in classrooms as well as theaters, as a preventative against the virus of cynicism.
- 70Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleWhere the filmmakers’ approach sets itself apart in these days of image-massaged biographies is in juxtaposing the bookending health catastrophes of Fauci’s career as an especially illuminating lens through which to examine his drive, decisions and personality.
- 67IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichViewers are spared by the tender mercies of biodoc tropes, as “Fauci” puts a pin in the action to wind back the clock and walk us through how its subject came to develop such an adamantium shell.
- 60The New York TimesLisa KennedyThe New York TimesLisa KennedyFauci is at its best when it draws parallels between the pandemics that define Dr. Fauci’s career. It vexes when it leans on straightforward biography