4 stars out of 5 -- "Stirring up the personal and the political, Macdonald fleshes out Marley on all fronts....The details grip and the music is primed to liven things up."
Total Film

"[W]hat MARLEY and its wonderful performance footage leave you with most of all is the joy the man took in the music that set him free and enchanted the world."
Los Angeles Times

3.5 stars out of 4 -- "MARLEY, an ambitious and comprehensive film, does what is probably the best possible job of documenting an important life."
Chicago Sun-Times

"Macdonald builds an imposing survey of a lavishly talented individual who touched millions of people..."
Sight and Sound

"The freshest parts of the film find Macdonald's crew visiting Nine Mile, the small village in the Jamaican hills where Marley was raised....The archive footage is also as good as you'd expect."
Uncut

"By the end you feel youve learned something about the man, yet his mystique emerges intact."
Movieline