The Los Angeles Times
The great pleasure of DERRIDA, an absolutely first-rate documentary about his life and thought that is the cinematic equivalent of a mind-expanding drug, is how invigorating and refreshing it is to be in the presence of such a powerful, agile intellect. - Kenneth Turan

New York Magazine
Bewitching ­ Bilge Ebiri

Wall St Journal
Playful but penetrating portrait of a deep thinker...challenging and fascinating. ­ Joe Morgenstern

LA Weekly
The film takes you in Derrida's life...the result is fascinating. ­ Holly Willis

Film Comment
The film cunningly incorporates the through-the-looking-glass elements of Derrida's thought, turning the seams of the filmmaking process inside out...inspirational and unexpectedly moving. - Rachel Rosen

Rolling Stone
Sundance's choices of award winners seems tame compared with DERRIDA, a potent and profound investigation into the philosophy of French Deconstructionist Jacques Derrida. - Peter Travers

Le Monde
The work of biography, which the subject of the film himself goes to great lengths to deconstruct, is one of the themes of DERRIDA, one of the most captivating and witty documentaries at Sundance this year. - Claudine Mulard

Variety
Clever, playful, and provocative. - Dennis Harvey

Village Voice
One of the most skillful docs at Sundance doubled as philosophical experiment in portraiture. Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman's DERRIDA avoids a Deconstruction primer, instead positioning itself as a demonstration of the French thinker's theories. - Dennis Lim

The Hollywood Reporter
Wry, funny, refreshingly different. Seldom has a movie so closely matched the spirit of a man and his work.
­ Kirk Honeycutt

Premiere
One of the Sundance festival's most engaging and provocative documentaries. - Glenn Kenny

Film Threat
Even if you have no idea what Derrida's theories are about, allow your mind to be teased and twisted by this unique new documentary. Dick and Ziering Kofman have created a priceless historical record of one of the 20 - and 21st - century's great minds at work. They also happen to know how to have fun. - Tim Merrill

from the Derrida the Movie website