| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

The most ambitious work of its kind.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 26, 2009

Just take our advice and bring tissues. You're going to need them.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 25, 2008

A slick account of ancient crevices in the human psyche rendered in cutting-edge cinematic style.

| Nov 20, 2008

A manipulative, tearjerking thriller that, functioning as a sustained, anguished primal scream, is as emotionally devastating as any film, fiction or non-, released this year.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 9, 2008

An undeniably shattering story, if forgivably shaky in its impassioned, therapeutic unfolding.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 7, 2008

Dear Zachary earns its right to engage us on a primal level, but it comes on the heels of so many films that don't, movies that...prey on modern fears and inflate third-rate material to the plane of tragedy.

| Nov 3, 2008

A four-handkerchief documentary if there ever was one.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 31, 2008

It is impossible not to be fired up by Kurt Kuenne's incendiary cri de coeur, Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 31, 2008

Dear Zachary's emotional intimacy is its greatest strength, and enough to get it through sections that seem more manipulative than meaningful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2008

A true-crime story so gripping, devastating, and ultimately unforgettable that it easily trumps any thriller Hollywood has to offer this year.

| Oct 29, 2008

The facts are so awful that Dear Zachary can be forgiven much of its antsiness -- as a memorial, as a condolence to Bagby's parents (who became activists for judicial reform in their late son's honor), and as a howl of grief.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 29, 2008

When Kuenne picked up his camera and set out to make a love letter to a tragically lost friend, he had no idea what he would find. With Dear Zachary, he found the best documentary of the year.

| Oct 29, 2008

What begins as a poignant tribute to filmmaker Kurt Kuenne's dead best friend snowballs into a gut-wrenching true-crime story.

| Mar 5, 2008