Ardern: "The myth-making begins immediately."

"'Prime Minister,' the new documentary charting Jacinda Ardern’s ascent, apotheosis and eventual retreat from public life, bills itself as an 'intimate portrait' of political power. ... Most of the footage is seemingly shot by her partner, Clarke Gayford, and the result feels less like a political documentary and more like stumbling across somebody’s unguarded home videos and realising, with horror, that they want you to watch all of them. ...

"The myth-making begins immediately. We’re whisked back to 2017, those breathless days when Ardern – 37, photogenic, permanently on the brink of tears – was hoisted into the Labour leadership and proclaimed the Kiwi messiah by people who really ought to get out more. The film dwells on this moment with something approaching religious fervour. ...

"Admirers will be transported; critics will develop a nervous tic. And the rest of us will ponder whether the world truly needed two hours of Jacinda’s domestic cinema. Spoiler: probably not."

~ UK's Daily Telegraph on a new home movie