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Reviews Counted: 44
Fresh: 41
Rotten:3
Average Rating: 7.9/10
Consensus: Dear Zachary is a both a touching tribute to a fallen friend and a heart-wrenching account of justice gone astray, skillfully put to film with no emotion spared.
Theatrical Release: Oct 31, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: DEAR ZACHARY: A LETTER TO A SON ABOUT HIS FATHER is not for the faint of heart. Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne's excruciatingly powerful documentary begins as a memorial to a lost friend, Andrew Bagby, who... [More]
Director: Kurt Kuenne
After it's through, a lot will have been said about friendship, injustice, and both faith in and letdown from the legal system, along with the intriguing thought that moral fortitude provides both its own punishments and rewards.
A documentary that never should have been made, this film is maudlin tabloid journalism thrown onto the screen. All we get in the end is a cry for revenge.
Long after the credits roll one will be rendered both empty and lifted by a bewildered family's sudden forbidden journey into the abyss of emotional darkness.
The senseless death of Andrew Bagby is only the prologue to Kuenne’s film: a clenched, tireless love letter to Andrew’s infectious spirit as well as a cinematic exorcism of sorts, clearing away the demons that surrounded his final days.
The phrase labor of love is so often tossed about, but Kurt Kuenne's emotionally wrenching documentary is absolutely that.
A slick account of ancient crevices in the human psyche rendered in cutting-edge cinematic style.
Top Critic The most emotionally powerful film of 2008... as deeply personal as any film you will ever see.
While it truly is a sad tale of friendship and loss, it is far more unexpected, anguished and absolutely sincere. You may see it coming, but you will feel the emotional impact that will haunt you for days.
An emotional roller-coaster of a movie, one that touches your heart and brings you to tears in some scenes, then enrages you in others.
A manipulative, tearjerking thriller that, functioning as a sustained, anguished primal scream, is as emotionally devastating as any film, fiction or non-, released this year.
This is one of the most emotionally transparent films ever made, and its gallery of heroes and villains trumps most of what you'll see in a multiplex this year.
An undeniably shattering story, if forgivably shaky in its impassioned, therapeutic unfolding.
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October 20, 2008:
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June 25, 2008:
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