Precious few poets get the privilege of becoming vastly popular in their lifetime, but with that profile often comes pushback from certain corners of the literary world: a suspicion that any verse understood by so many can’t be all that profound. An appropriately accessible and open-hearted documentary on her life and legacy (the film) doesn’t engage with such criticism at an academic level; it prefers to answer it with the emotive power of Oliver’s own words.-Variety
