Blue Heron

Name: Blue Heron
Genre: Drama
Released: April 17, 2026
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 94

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Janus Films | Release Date: April 17, 2026 | Not Rated

Summary: In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, but their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behavior from the eldest son, Jeremy. At wit’s end, their parents are presented with a shattering choice.

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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100

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Apr 17, 2026

This devastating drama is an act of remembrance for its filmmaker, who has been open about how much of this story is her own. It’s also a reminder of the power of filmmaking to turn the deeply personal into relatable art, and an announcement of a major talent, one who has made the best film of the year to date. Read full review

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Screen Rant Alex Harrison

Apr 23, 2026

Blue Heron is the kind of movie that begs to be written about at length. For now, I'll have to be content with assuring you that this is one of the year's best movies. If it comes to a theater near you, don't miss it. Read full review

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Odie Henderson

May 7, 2026

Not since Charlotte Wells’s 2022 film “Aftersun,” about a woman remembering a pivotal trip she took with her father as a child, have I seen this level of personal filmmaking presented in such superb and original fashion. “Blue Heron” is one of the best films of the year. Read full review

The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Sep 5, 2025

Heartbreaking barely begins to describe it, although the terms masterful and transcendent also apply. Read full review

IndieWire Josh Slater-Williams

Sep 4, 2025

If you’ve ever imagined how you’d try comforting your younger self or your family about the uncertain future ahead of them, Blue Heron may be the most emotionally devastating film of the year — and also perhaps the most comforting. Read full review

David Robb

Sep 4, 2025

There’s a low-key warmth to Romvari’s painstaking portrait of quotidian family life, as her documentarian attention to detail creates an intoxicatingly vivid rendering of 1990s suburbia. Read full review

Zachary Barnes

Apr 17, 2026

It takes a series of self-reflexive turns that are overelaborate in their conception and slightly inert in their execution, rendering the movie’s poignancy more theoretical than fully felt. Read full review

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