Name : Chris Vognar / Alias : Dallas Morning News
The Perfect Shot might not be the perfect movie, but it's still a worthy profile of the defining Dallas sports star of this generation.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
The film, like its subject and everyone who talks about him, is frustratingly short on analysis or insight.

Name : Keith Uhlich / Alias : AV Club
The subjects themselves may soar, but the film that contains them remains frustratingly earthbound.

Name : Katharine Pushkar / Alias : New York Daily News
An informative, if not engrossing, history of a sport.

Name : Ben Kenigsberg / Alias : AV Club
If Sunshine Superman doesn't exactly inspire comprehension of the desire to feel like you're "flashing through a 20-story building in one second," it is immersive enough to induce panic.

Name : John DeFore / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
An irrepressible pioneer of BASE jumping contributes greatly to his own encomium in Sunshine Superman, Marah Strauch's very fine look at the legacy of Carl Boenish.

Name : Erik McClanahan / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
A pretty straightforward account of Boenish's life and tragic death, but man. all those skydiving, cliff-jumping and parachuting shots are really something to behold.

Name : Bruce Demara / Alias : Toronto Star
Engrossing, tension-filled and utterly fascinating.

Name : Simon Abrams / Alias : Village Voice
You may not leave Sunshine Superman wanting to emulate Carl and Jean, but you will feel like you've vicariously bonded with them.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
The real-life stunts are eminently suspenseful and exhilarating, and adrenaline junkies will be well pleased. For the uninitiated, however, Strauch's adoring treatment of the Boenishes may be a little hard to stomach.

Name : Karen D'Souza / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
Strauch makes a compelling case for the exhilaration of living, and dying, on your own terms, a freedom so few of us ever truly experience.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
The exhilarating documentary "Sunshine Superman," which melds gorgeous aerial photography of Boenish's jumps with sublime musical cues, finds in Boenish a kind of poet-adventurer, equal parts pixie and desperado.

Name : Walter V. Addiego / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
The action shots are intoxicating, as close as most of us will get to feeling the jumpers' euphoria.

Name : Dennis Harvey / Alias : Variety
An exhilarating flashback to the life and times of BASE jumping's daredevil popularizer.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
[A] gripping documentary.

Name : Stephanie Merry / Alias : Washington Post
"Sunshine Superman" might seem like a niche story, with its focus on stunts that most people wouldn't dream of actually doing, but the documentary feels universal. It's simply an examination of how one man fully embraced life while charting his own path.

Name : Neil Genzlinger / Alias : New York Times
A bittersweet documentary about Carl Boenish, who looked at very tall things and saw an opportunity to leap.

Name : Peter Keough / Alias : Boston Globe
[A] spectacular and affecting portrait.

Name : Marsha Lederman / Alias : Globe and Mail
Long before there were GoPros, there was Boenish, a camera mounted on his helmet, jumping from Yosemite's El Capitan or L.A. skyscrapers under construction.

Name : Molly Eichel / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Sunshine Superman, named for the Donovan song, is about more than just Boenish. It's about the power of the image, something that Strauch uses to great effect.

Name : Michael Rechtshaffen / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Director Marah Strauch gives the film an exhilarating uplift of its own.

Name : Peter Rainer / Alias : Christian Science Monitor
Boenish's wife, Jean, who trained to jump with him, is interviewed extensively, and, although Strauch doesn't provide much backstory for her, she emerges as that rarity - a perfect matchup to a seemingly unmatchable man.