Metacritic Movie Ratings
Stories We Tell Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 100

  out of 100

  Village VoiceStephanie Zacharek

  This wondrous, absorbing little picture covers a great deal of winding meta-territory, reflecting on the ways in which a single family's story can be told—or maybe, more accurately, examining the idea that there's no such thing as a "single story."

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• 91

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman

  By the end, the rug gets pulled out from under us, showing that even the reality we think we see may be an illusion.

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• 80

  out of 100

  VarietyGuy Lodge

  The alternately playful and elegiac Stories We Tell is wholly of a piece with her fiction work, and just as rewarding.

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• 80

  out of 100

  The Hollywood Reporter

  This playfully complex and gently slippery analysis of memory and personal narrative manages to engage us in what's essentially the private business, some might even say the dirty laundry, of total strangers.

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