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80
Viewer score based on 8 votes.

Critic Score

82
Critics' score based on 11 reviews.
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An undeniably shattering story, if forgivably shaky in its impassioned, therapeutic unfolding.Full Review

Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times

Among the most enraging (documentaries) I've ever seen, and while it's fine and heartfelt and I commend it to those of you with strong constitutions, it is the film that has finally broken me.Full Review

David Edelstein
New York Magazine

Kuenne lovingly assembles home-movie footage and new interviews, while deftly borrowing a narrative trick from fiction--the plot twist--to create a true-crime story so gripping, devastating, and ultimately unforgettable that it easily trumps any thriller Hollywood has to offer this year.Full Review

Village Voice

Without becoming a screed for victims' rights, the riveting film shows how in the face of terrible events a grieving parent is galvanized into activism.Full Review

Sheri Linden
The Hollywood Reporter

It is impossible not to be fired up by Kurt Kuenne's incendiary cri de coeur, Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father.Full Review

Stephen Holden
The New York Times
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