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What could end up feeling like a by-the-numbers Discovery Channel docu is enlivened considerably by wry asides from the helmer.
Leslie Felperin, Variety
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Wheel of Time
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Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog's photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India.
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The director made his name in the '70s with a series of intense fictional films, but he's also proven a fascinating documentarian.
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle
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[Herzog] knows instinctively when to linger and when it's time to turn away.
Jan Stuart, Newsday
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The assembly and eventual destruction of the Kalachakra sand mandala is the cycle around which the German director Werner Herzog's absorbing documentary is structured.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
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Taking a low-key approach, Herzog captures the pilgrims' intense fervor. The sight of 500,000 people united in prayer is mind-blowing.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
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