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(1 - 17) of 17 OFCS Rating: 82% Fresh Page   1   2/4 "The film may well have proved revelatory for those who knew its subjects."   Slant Magazine   Andrew Schenker A- "By turning misery into performance art, Dews has crafted a piercing motion picture that sheds icky voyeuristic limitations to transform into something mournful and reflective, finding a sense of resolution in the midst of an unexpected education."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf 4/5 "A polarizing family secrets drama whose moment of revelation is continually diverted in favor of enticing new fragments of the truth..."   Filmcritic.com   Chris Barsanti B- "Complex and percolating with a cruel subtext of reckless psychiatrists, "Must Read After My Death" is deeply personal and troubling documentary."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "As it makes narrative sense out of experience, it also leaves much of the nonsense in place, not explaining or rationalizing, but showing that such inclinations - by doctors, husbands, and even mothers - can be as disturbing as the chaos they seek to fix."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 4/5 "'Must Read After My Death' feels less like a documentary and more like a loud scream for help."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 4/4 "An eye-openingly brilliant tapestry. Non-fictional cinema at its finest."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman 2/5 "That the characters here are 'real' makes little difference; they're still, at this point, cliches, belying the promise of the Levittown Dream for the thousandth time."   The L Magazine   Henry Stewart "As [director Morgan] Dews cuts and re-cuts home movies and photographs over the words and score; the end effect is as mesmerizing as it is uncomfortable."   Cinematical   James Rocchi 4.5/5 "This account of his maternal grandparents and their children functions as a time capsule from 1960s America and as an engrossing alternative to Revolutionary Road."   Boxoffice Magazine   John P. McCarthy B "The obvious but effective tactic of contrasting words and visuals scrapes off the veneer of domestic bliss that people put on for the world and which gets pasted in scrapbooks and hung on walls."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer 3/4 "One of the most gut-wrenching portraits of family dysfunction ever to hit a movie screen."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan A- "The urgency of Allis' message to us -- not "please" but "must read" -- is most honorably discharged and her story lets us hear the voice that was almost silenced."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow "Intimately, poetically evokes the banal tragedies of one family's 1960s Hartford, CT life."   The Screengrab   Nick Schager 2/5 "A formally intriguing but incredibly depressing examination of a seemingly perfect Sixties-era American family self-destructing before our eyes and ears."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 7/10 "It's haunting and troubling, therapeutically transforming home movies into visual art."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 17) of 17 OFCS Rating: 82% Fresh Page   1