Beyond all its other selling points, "Project Nim" is quite simply a gripping story well told. We've become so used to documentaries that preach to the converted that it's hard to remember the last ...

Devilishly talented British director James Marsh made “Man on Wire,” a marvelous documentary blending archival footage and sly re-enactments about the French wire-walker who, in 1974, stunned the ...

How did you become involved with “Project Nim”? Well actually it starts with a book written by Elizabeth Hess [“Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human”] which was published in 2008 that the ...

James Marsh’s new documentary, “Project Nim,” is based on a true story. So is the 1987 feature “Project X.” But in spite of their similarity in plot — a chimpanzee is taught American sign language as ...

In the early 1970s, Columbia University psychology professor Herbert Terrace speculated that if a chimpanzee were raised like a human child in a human home and taught sign language — because chimps ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

Researchers may have taught a chimp named Nim to communicate via sign language back in the mid-’70s, but it was humans who learned the most from the experiment, as detailed in director James Marsh‘s ...

You get a bad feeling early in Project Nim, the brilliant, traumatizing documentary by James Marsh (Man on Wire). Nim was a chimpanzee who—I can’t bring myself to use “that”—in 1973 became a test ...

With British documentary maker James Marsh's often wild mix of genuine footage and re-creations, in lesser hands his movies could easily slip into something approaching an episode of Cops. But ...

James Marsh again proves himself a storyteller of impeccable craftsmanship and delicacy in this unsettling but enthralling animal science study. By David Rooney Chief Film Critic The British ...

Project Nim is a documentary about an ape. A hairy, crap flinging ape. What do I care about an ape? A chimp, no less. The type you used to see wearing work trousers in PG Tips adverts. The story of ...