Trying to free Wood from the enormous shadow cast by her death is no small feat. Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind doesn't quite manage the task…

| Feb 7, 2024

The documentary's stated ambition to focus on who she was as a person rather than how she died rings false.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 20, 2022

If you take the documentary for what it is -- a family tribute to Natalie Wood, not a tell-all chronicle to expose the family's dirty laundry -- then Natalie Wood: What Reminds Behind will fulfill those expectations.

| Jul 18, 2020

It feels very managed by the family to give the best impressions of all of their members

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jun 19, 2020

What's appealing about the documentary is that it's about Wood's life, not her death.

| Jun 5, 2020

Essentially an opportunity for the family to do damage control.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 16, 2020

In the end, what remains is a work without conflict, and I think that conflict or questioning must be the core of any good documentary. [Full Review in Spanish]

| May 15, 2020

A beautiful tribute to a legend that's equally fascinating and heart-wrenching. As someone who's not familiar with her work, I'm glad this film revealed Natalie Wood as SO much more than just a famous actress who died mysteriously far too soon.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2020

Solid and intermittently intriguing, but ultimately disappointing because it left a lot of stones unturned.

| May 12, 2020

It's an interesting film because it is a sort of personal memoir by her daughter... It's very much a kind of "authorized film," but it's touching that way.

| May 12, 2020

Filmmaking at its most personal, and its most agenda-driven ... I rather loved it, even as I saw through it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 11, 2020

Bouzereau...does an impressive job here capturing the essence of a human being behind the image.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 9, 2020

The most touching sequences feature Natasha and her stepfather Robert Wagner...

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 9, 2020

Though the documentary offers no definitive answers beyond her death being an unfortunate accident, What Remains Behind, though awkwardly titled, is a personal homage to her quiet magnitude.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 8, 2020

[A] brisk, engaging documentary...

| Original Score: B | May 8, 2020

It's absolutely worth seeing if you love Hollywood and film because Natalie was one of their brightest shining stars.

| Original Score: 9/10 | May 8, 2020

Absent the pall of her passing, this struggle for psychological truth is the true fascination with Wood's life, one that Bouzereau probes with admirable focus.

| May 6, 2020

Let's face it. You won't learn too many new facts with this doc. But, you will be reminded of how beautiful, talented and kind Natalie Wood was thanks to her daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner not letting her death over shadow her life.

| May 6, 2020

Her daughters are the interviews, more than Robert Redford or Mia Farrow, that give color to Natalie's life, and what its loss meant.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 6, 2020

Considering how sanitized "What Remains Behind" is with regards to Wood's rebellious tendencies it's a strawman argument to situate Wood against famous self-destructive stars.

| Original Score: C+ | May 5, 2020