"A personally revealing look at an artist most famous for maintaining stone-faced silence for three months, MARINA ABRAMOVIC: THE ARTIST IS PRESENT makes performance art accessible..."
Hollywood Reporter

"[E]ven though filmed behind the scenes, with her guard down, the artist is still revealed at the top of her game, a true survivor who's finally received the recognition she knows she deserves."
Film Comment

"[R]iveting....[A] portrait of an artist whose life and work intertwine in ways even more compelling than might be imagined."
Los Angeles Times

"[A]n elegantly observed, sleekly packaged look at an artist whose career-long balance of enigma and self-exposure culminated in a 2010 retrospective at New York Citys Museum of Modern Art."
Movieline

"[I]t's about something bigger than one artist. It taps into the ways that the radical underground art world go seduced by the bourgeois passion for fame." -- Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly

4 stars out of 5 -- "[C]onsistently informative in charting Abramovic's career, and genuinely engaging thanks to his subject's witty, unpretentious presence."
Total Film

"[A] solid and thoughtful introduction to Abramovic's work....Insight into Abramovic's creative process is also fortunately forthcoming."
Sight and Sound