Magnus (2016 film)

Magnus premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2016.[8] and became the first Norwegian feature documentary to have its world premiere at the festival.[9] Magnus Carlsen did not attend to the premiere of the film, but his family was present.[10] The film became the fastest sold out film at the festival that year,[11] and the artistic director at Tribeca Film Festival Frederic Boyer said the film was one of his favorites that year.[12]

Magnus received mostly positive reviews from film critics. It holds a 81% approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 21 reviews, with a weighted average of 6.2/10.[13] BBC put the film on its top 10 list, November 2016, as the only documentary on the list, calling the film: "[...) an intimate look Carlsen’s extraordinary life through archive footage, home movies and interviews.".[14] Later BBC published a behind the scenes featurette about the film, showing a clip of Magnus Carlsen playing blindfolded chess against 10 lawyers at Harvard University, beating them all.[15]

• Global Future Prize – Oulu International Children’s and Youth Film Festival.[16]
• The Ray of Sunshine – The NorwegianFilm Festival.[17]
• Audience Award – Docville [18]

• Magnus at IMDb
• Magnus on Rotten Tomatoes
• BBC Featurette