“Rewind” is explicitly personal and uncompromisingly truthful...It makes effective use of the genre in a way that couldn’t be achieved in any other form.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 5, 2022

Neulinger revisits arguably the most horrific years of his life with a surprising amount of empathy for his parents, especially Henry.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2021

An unshakeable portrait of sexual abuse's impact on a family, history as the source of explanations, and personality being at the mercy of experience and trauma.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 19, 2020

The old footage of Sasha clearly cracking under the strain of his family's betrayal contrasts poignantly with the strong, centered man he has become.

| Original Score: 7.7/10 | Sep 11, 2020

Rewind is not an easy film to watch, but it's an inspiring example of how someone can confront trauma and use the art of moviemaking as a form of therapy and as a way to help others.

| Jul 12, 2020

Unquestionably difficult to watch - wait until you learn details of Uncle Harold's "punishment" - Neulinger's heroic act of bravery will hopefully encourage and inspire others to come forward.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 26, 2020

Throughout it all Neulinger remains undaunted and relentless but also artful, as he shows how cinema can both conceal and reveal, how it can evade the truth, or confront it, and by so doing transcend it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 5, 2020

...its own form of heroic self-analysis that unfolds with a knowing glance towards cinema's own habits of disguising the truth behind the flash of the camera's happy filter.

| Original Score: A- | May 30, 2020

It's intensely personal, yet this gut-wrenching documentary also provides harrowing broader insight into the way child sexual abuse impacts family legacies in general.

| May 29, 2020

A powerful and often disturbing debut: part true-crime story, part harrowing self-reflection, part exploration of memory and its relationship to the moving image.

| Original Score: B+ | May 22, 2020

Rewind is undeniably engrossing stuff, with a whole lot of squirm-inducing content.

| May 18, 2020

Conveys an unforgettable sense of all that's stolen when children are abused-as well as the heroic bravery, compassion and togetherness required to combat such cruelty.

| May 12, 2020

It's quite shocking and revelatory... It's really a powerful movie that accelerates in its power as it goes along.

| May 12, 2020

It's not a thriller, but it is a horror movie... Beyond being a study in the horrors of a cycle of abuse, it's also a look at the discrepancies and disparities that occur in our justice system.

| May 12, 2020

A really courageous feat.

| May 12, 2020

Rough, tough, complicated and hard to talk about...ultimately [a] story about the heroism of the filmmaker.

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

Despite its horrifying subject matter, this is a truly elevating tale of redemption told by its tormented subject, a master filmmaker.

| May 9, 2020

A therapeutic masterwork.

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

Sasha Joseph Neulinger's "Rewind" is a documentary about sexual abuse, but it's far from a depressing "issue"-driven movie. It's brave and daring.

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

Rewind is hard to watch. It might also be essential.

| May 8, 2020