These moments, beautifully and authentically captured and constructed by Morgan Dews, are poignant, tender, angry, hypnotic, innocent, taunting, honest, and true.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 17, 2020

| Original Score: A- | Feb 18, 2012

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

A polarizing family secrets drama whose moment of revelation is continually diverted in favor of enticing new fragments of the truth...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 23, 2009

It's haunting and troubling, therapeutically transforming home movies into visual art.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 8, 2009

An unsettling portrait of a broken family.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 2, 2009

A searing and intimate account of an unconventional woman struggling not to lose her identity or her sanity in the rigid 1950s suburban world of stay-at-home moms, well-behaved children and sparkling-clean houses.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 27, 2009

Like other family doc gothics, the heart of the suburbs is-gasp!-black as bile; unlike them, however, this has a strong female voice that gives us chills from beyond the grave

| Original Score: A- | Feb 26, 2009

It's mesmerizing.

Full Review | Feb 26, 2009

A bloodcurdling 75-minute diary assembled from an astonishing stash of audiotapes and Dictaphone recordings, cries and whispers out of one documentary filmmaker's family history.

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

As it makes narrative sense out of experience, it also leaves much of the nonsense in place, not explaining or rationalizing, but showing that such inclinations - by doctors, husbands, and even mothers - can be as disturbing as the chaos they seek to fix.

| Feb 26, 2009

I applaud Gigantic's desire to bring independent-film distribution into the new-millennial cutting edge. But I'll judge its success only after the company has streamed more real, live movies.

Full Review | Feb 26, 2009

Dews helps Allis hold out a gendered posthumous snapshot of an era whose smug surface, barely masking oceans of suffering, makes Revolutionary Road look like a tea party.

| Feb 26, 2009

File this 'therapeutic' movie, well made and creepy, on the dysfunction-as-art shelf 
next to Capturing the Friedmans.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 25, 2009

'Must Read After My Death' feels less like a documentary and more like a loud scream for help.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 21, 2009

The obvious but effective tactic of contrasting words and visuals scrapes off the veneer of domestic bliss that people put on for the world and which gets pasted in scrapbooks and hung on walls.

| Original Score: B | Feb 21, 2009

One of the most sympathetic and revealing portraits of a suburban woman in crisis ever made in any medium.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Feb 21, 2009

The stuttery films and faded, scratchy photos show us a suburban American family straight out of the media cliche machine.

| Feb 20, 2009

This account of his maternal grandparents and their children functions as a time capsule from 1960s America and as an engrossing alternative to Revolutionary Road.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 20, 2009