A skilled filmmaker of some considerable experience, Rebecca has pieced together this revealing portrait of her father from 20 years of candid interviews conducted on the family's beautiful rural estate.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 11, 2018

Warm portrait on dad.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 15, 2018

A bit slow in the early chapters devoted to Miller's family history, the documentary takes off once the playwright's career kicks into gear.

| Mar 26, 2018

A thoughtful and ethically illuminating documentary

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 22, 2018

[It] is a thorough and thoroughly excellent documentary about a very significant 20th century writer. It's also thoroughly excellent in its presentation of the larger and more universal quandaries around how children understand their parents

| Original Score: 8.9/10 | Mar 19, 2018

That documentary, which airs on HBO Monday night, is a true labor of love-a charming 100-minute film that offers an insider's account of a complicated life.

| Mar 19, 2018

... the comprehensive documentary "Arthur Miller: Writer" (HBO, 8 p.m.) the author of "Death of a Salesman" and so many other works is warm, thoughtful and expansive, probably because he's talking to his daughter [director Rebecca Miller].

| Mar 19, 2018

This film biography of one of America's greatest playwrights is an extremely personal, subjective, and candid one, and with good reason.

| Mar 19, 2018

Much worse is her fractured retelling of the events surrounding Miller's confrontation with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and its investigation of Hollywood's Communist Party in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

| Mar 16, 2018

There's an eloquent handmade quality to "Arthur Miller: Writer," filmmaker Rebecca Miller's engagingly intimate portrait of her famous father.

| Dec 7, 2017

She interviewed [her father] for decades...Adds personal and archival photographs, home movies, and talks with relatives and friends, this is a warm and intimate reflection.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 3, 2017