A warm and honest portrait of a marriage at its most mysterious, and ordinary.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Through haunting home movies, Mina's diaries and interviews with Mike, a raw, riveting portrait emerges of what a child sees in his parents' relationship and what lies beneath.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
Block has made a sad, delightful and half-accidental movie about his own parents.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Ann Hornaday
Block, an experienced documentarian, does an outstanding job walking the knife-edge between personal and self-absorbed.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Sam Adams
What makes 51 Birch Street a moving revelation rather than a therapeutic exercise is Block's commitment to understanding his parents, Mike and Mina, on their own terms, regardless of what it does to his image of them.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: A.O. Scott
Mr. Block has put his parents’ life, and his own, into this film with such warmth and candor that it may take more than one viewing to recognize it as a work of art.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Melissa Levine
Begins shakily, with a naked self-consciousness that can be off-putting, but quickly develops into an absorbing and ever deepening drama.Read Full Review »
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