Prime Minister

There's something incredibly, wistfully sad about this sympathetic documentary charting the rise and fall of New Zealand's third female Prime Minister, Dame Jacinda Ardern.

“Prime Minister” reminds us, the role that the internet and sharply ideological news sources play in our lives shifted dramatically in just the years Ardern was in office.

The qualities that endeared Ardern to the world and — for her first term, at least — to her country were a directness, intelligence, drive and unglamorous charm that “Prime Minister” convincingly presents as entirely unmanufactured.

In many ways, the documentary is as unprecedented as Ardern’s career.

Utz and Walshe, the documentarians, get the facts straight, paint the portrait and let PM Jacinda Ardern shine.

World leaders have rarely been captured with as much intimacy.

Briskly paced and consistently inspiring, the film offers a trenchant examination of a politician trying to do her best in an era when the world is deeply divided.

A slickly edited and mildly engaging, but repetitive and often hagiographic documentary biopic on New Zealand's 40th Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern.

Even if you’ve sworn off politics and vowed to shun the callousness of nihilistic senators such as Joni Ernst, you’ll want to do yourself the favor of sharing 90 minutes with one of the world’s most remarkable women.

Prime Minister shows a politician can be kind, considerate, and sincere, while also making differences that reflect those characteristics.