Life Itself vs Yalla Habibi!
Yalla Habibi! has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.5/10 for Life Itself). Yalla Habibi! is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 2h 1m. Life Itself is the older of the two (2014 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Life Itself
Yalla Habibi!| Life Itself | Yalla Habibi! | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.5/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2014 | 2025 |
| Length | 2h 1m | 1h 30m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | – | Canada |
| Director | Steve James | Edwin El Bainou, Ryan Kluftinger |
| Main cast | Werner Herzog, Stephen Stanton, Roger Ebert, Chaz Ebert, Ramin Bahrani | Ryan Kluftinger, Connor Bondlow, Edwin El Bainou |
Synopsis
Life Itself
The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentious partnership with Gene Siskel, his life-altering marriage, and his brave and transcendent battle with cancer.
Yalla Habibi!
FortNine attempts to break the circumnavigation world record with award-winning filmmaker Edwin El Bainou riding pillion. It's a dangerously silly race across thousands of kilometres per day, with the polished and authentic eye that only a ride-along cinematographer can capture. Part documentary and part dark comedy, this is motorcycling as FortNine has never shown before. In less than 19 days, the trio must ride from Anchorage to Miami, Lisbon…
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