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

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

Howard is especially sensitive to the way the community banded together after the disaster,

| Aug 1, 2020

Mr. Howard wants us to know that greater challenges lie ahead... Yet his documentary also dramatizes the resilience and resourcefulness we can bring to bear in meeting them. Calamity, the film says, isn't destiny.

| Jul 31, 2020

It's frequently gripping and finally very moving.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 31, 2020

A gripping and moving story, even though it never quite lives up to its opening section.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 31, 2020

Howard is a skilled enough filmmaker to highlight that hope just enough to keep "Rebuilding Paradise" from being overwhelmed by loss.

| Jul 31, 2020

While the filmmaker keeps his eyes peeled for every possible shred of good news in the wake of disaster, he has little interest in peddling easy inspiration; the stakes are too colossal, the devastation too raw.

| Jul 30, 2020

Howard untangles the knotted emotions of that awful predicament by focusing on the bureaucracy involved in starting over.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 30, 2020

Rebuilding Paradise speaks to the resiliency of human beings, and maybe something about the American can-do spirit. There's a sense of legitimate optimism when ground is broken to construct new homes around the one-year anniversary of the Camp Fire.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 30, 2020

Though it might seem generic in some respects, "Rebuilding Paradise" resonates with the moment.

| Jul 30, 2020

"Rebuilding Paradise" is well worth seeing, but know that Howard's taste for the upbeat keeps getting drowned out by a dire and dissonant doomsday drum.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 30, 2020

A sincere and skillfully assembled tribute to a community's fortitude.

| Mar 5, 2020

"Rebuilding Paradise" is a movie that shows us a great deal without necessarily exploring what it shows.

| Feb 20, 2020