Ron Howard’s gripping documentary, Rebuilding Paradise, is a soul-stirring effort that honors those departed by focusing on the ones who picked up the pieces, grieved for their families, and lived to fight another day.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2022

With northern Nevada skylines increasingly bearing the orange tinges of nearby fires, Ron Howard's new documentary Rebuilding Paradise gains extra resonance.

| Jul 26, 2021

My eyes welled up about three minutes in and stayed wet throughout -- but it's also a warning, a cautionary tale.

| Jul 14, 2021

A tense and climatic opening that hooks in the viewer. A genuinely empathetic and well-intentioned documentary.

| Original Score: 6/10 | May 5, 2021

...a sobering film, and a valuable contribution to current discussions about whether we can ignore science for short-term gain...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 17, 2021

Where Fire in Paradise puts us right there in the thick of the flames, Rebuilding Paradise feels more distant, from the outside, just visiting.

| Nov 9, 2020

Filmmaker Howard admittedly does a superb job of immediately drawing the viewer into the briskly-paced proceedings...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 8, 2020

Howard's documentary is not so much about the fire as it takes a looks at the resilience members of the community showed. It is both painful and inspirational.

| Nov 7, 2020

There is much to unpack in Howard's excellent, unsentimental look at the disaster.

| Nov 6, 2020

A harrowing, hopeful, and ultimately vital look at human resilience, climate change, and corporate malfeasance, but mostly, it's about people.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 2, 2020

There's an awkward sense that Howard's laudable desire to celebrate love of community and resilience gives us a partial picture of reality, or, at best, a first act. This is less like Paradise Regained than Limbo Extended.

| Original Score: B | Oct 23, 2020

It's very emotional...watching people going back and rebuilding their community...it's a tale of human endurance.

| Oct 8, 2020

Rebuilding Paradise might easily have blazed with righteous fury, but its conclusions are quieter and bleaker.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 25, 2020

The story of a community which pulled together after losing everything.

| Sep 23, 2020

Equal parts tender and terrifying, Rebuilding Paradise is a gorgeously rendered documentary, playing as a tense, engrossing and crisply shot study of a community torn apart.

| Sep 10, 2020

This is a powerful film, but I thought Howard went soft on this notorious company that has a history of choosing profit over the health and well-being of its customers.

| Sep 1, 2020

Howard and his documentary team are interested in chronicling the slow, often painful resurrection of Paradise to even a fraction of its former glory.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 16, 2020

It is so powerful and so frightening. You wonder "Where did [Ron Howard] find this footage?"... After the fire though, the film rambles a bit.

| Aug 13, 2020

This was a pretty homogenous community... The film doesn't really speak to that very much.

| Aug 13, 2020

It's very inspiring. I really enjoyed it.

| Aug 13, 2020