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 ...

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 ...

Herbert Terrace, a Columbia University professor who in 1973 launched an experiment to teach a chimpanzee sign language, only seems like the villain of the documentary "Project Nim." Nearly everyone ...

This week on Collider's podcast, The Collision, we talk about the Planet of the Apes franchise, its flexibility, its themes, motifs, and more. PROJECT NIM DVD Review. Documentary filmmaker James Marsh ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Roughly a year before the beastly Nixon broke free of his own unnatural habitat, a Columbia University prof figured it’d be neat to see whether and how a chimp raised solely among humans could acquire ...

James Marsh ("Man on Wire") screened his new documentary "Project Nim" as part of the Sundance Film Festival's opening night Thursday. Along with Marsh and his producing partner Simon Chinn, many of ...

Project Nim is without a doubt one of the oddest science documentaries you’ll ever see. It is the biopic of Nim, the first chimpanzee who was taught sign language. Despite his rudimentary knowledge, ...