Critic Reviews

• Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

  It takes tremendous courage to expose one's life to the camera as Fox does here, and while she answers few of the universal (to women, anyway) questions she raises, at least she's asking them.

• Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

  There are times when Fox's nervy endeavor to combine art and life obliges one to give way to the other, but her efforts and reflections throughout are riveting.

• Jessica Reaves, Chicago Tribune

  Despite [director] Fox's excruciating level of self-involvement, she manages, more than once, to lay bare critical questions that are at once familiar and compelling.

• Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times

  As maddening and sometimes embarrassing as her approach is, it works.

• V.A. Musetto, New York Post

  How would you like to be stuck in a dark room for hour upon hour listening to a neurotic middle-aged woman complain about her love life?

• Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com

  Fox is breaking new ground in terms of personal documentary, turning a navel-gazing survey of her own midlife crisis into a globalized, collaboratively created exploration of 'this new female life'...

• Jennifer Merin, About.com

  Using her personal quest for a meaningful relationship and a family as an ongoing point of reference, Jennifer Fox delves into the complex subject of what women around the world want from their lives and loves.

• Kam Williams, NewsBlaze

  A real-life cross of Annie Hall and Erica Jong.

• Prairie Miller, NewsBlaze

  Goodby rebel lifestyle, free love and recreational hot sex, hello conventional midlife crisis.

• Prairie Miller, NewsBlaze

  Goodby rebel lifestyle, free love and recreational hot sex, hello conventional midlife crisis.

• Bill White, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

  Over the six hours spent with Fox as she jets around the globe, a picture emerges, not only of a modern woman contemplating herself, but of Western society boasting of its freedom to a world struggling for mere survival.

• Mary F. Pols, Contra Costa Times

  I'd mark how effective Flying is by the fact that I'm under no obligation to watch the rest of the series, but I'm eager to do so.

• MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher

  Seinfeld on estrogen... if Seinfeld had dared to be about something...

• Ted Murphy, Murphy's Movie Reviews

  What keeps the film interesting, though, is not Fox's "torn between two lovers" shtick, but her encounters with various other women.

• Ken Fox, TV Guide's Movie Guide

  In the end this very personal journey becomes a valuable universal document from which we can all learn about the way women live today.

• Eric Monder, Film Journal International

  Flying falls short of being an extraordinary film, but remains a dignified and absorbing chronicle.

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