"One of the most moving and fascinating documentaries I've seen this year"

A.O. Scott
NEW YORK TIMES

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"Doug Block's very moving, honest and even suspenseful autopsy of his parents' marriage is the kind of film audiences leave the theater talking about..."

John Anderson
NEWSDAY

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"A warm and honest portrait of a marriage at its most mysterious, and ordinary."

Lisa Scharzbaum
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

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"Extraordinary... spellbinding... an utterly absorbing mystery"

Rene Rodriguez
MIAMI HERALD

"A triumph of true-life storytelling... with every bit the emotional punch of the more sensationalist doc fare"

Eddie Cockrell
VARIETY

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"Block has made a sad, delightful and half-accidental movie about his own parents which was the outstanding personal documentary at this year's (SXSW) festival... Profound and humane."

Andrew O'Hehir
SALON.COM

"The film is a revelation because it is so folksy and so disarming that we can see ourselves and our own family histories in a fresh new light."

Bruce Kirkland
TORONTO SUN

"51 Birch Street is a beautiful, resonant piece of work about how little we know about our parents' lives, about marriage and fidelity, loss and reconciliation. I've often felt that the personal documentary has overstayed its welcome, but Birch Street reaffirms my faith in the form."

Anthony Kaufman
INDIEWIRE

"Block's hypnotic documentary, among the finest of the year, is a resounding success..."

Ruthe Stein
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

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"What makes "51 Birch Street" a moving revelation rather than a therapeutic exercise is Block's commitment to understanding his parents..."

Sam Adams
LOS ANGELES TIMES

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"Wonderful... a loving, painful map of the gulf between thought and word, between word and deed, that props up good marriages, and sends bad ones to hell."

Ella Taylor
LA WEEKLY

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"51 Birch Street is the latest autobiographical doc sensation"

TORONTO STAR

"With 51 Birch Street, Doug Block has fashioned an engaging and at times even suspenseful mystery out of his family's story and, along the way, a social history of the American family unfolds, from the uptight 50s through the 70s (a swath of story worthy of Updike, Cheever or Roth) to the present."

David Hudson
GREENCINE DAILY

"Exceptional ... This film should become a huge hit because its central question is universal; if you could learn everything about your parents' lives, would you really want to know? ... This is wonderful non-fiction storytelling."

Tom Hall
INDIEWIRE

"As engrossing as any murder mystery but without melodrama or histrionics, could be this year's Capturing the Friedmans."

Jim Emerson
RogerEbert.com

"Tears your heart out ... as haunted by ghosts as anything found in a Hollywood horror movie."

Geoff Pevere
TORONTO STAR