Remake
Release Date: July 10, 2026 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
92
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
VarietyGuy LodgeDec 12, 2025
Remake is extraordinarily clear-eyed for a work so broken-hearted: at once a home movie, an intimate diary and an expansive study of the filmmaker’s purpose, constantly disrupting its own conclusions with expressions of anger, amusement and still-unresolved confusion. Read full review
100
Time OutPhil de SemlyenSep 5, 2025
Remake is emotionally shattering. Read full review
91
The PlaylistWarren CantrellSep 5, 2025
McElwee probes the very idea of memory itself, and in perhaps his crowning achievement as a documentarian, fails to come up with any definitive answers, yet somehow still moves closer to the truth than he ever had before. Read full review
91
IndieWireVikram MurthiSep 5, 2025
Remake, like all of McElwee’s personal cinema, embody the passage of time itself. In other words, it’s the stuff of life. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerSep 5, 2025
Remake is certainly a movie about memory, especially bad memories, but in a Proustian sense it’s a movie in search of lost time — both the time McElwee spent with his son and the time slipping away as the director and his peers grow old and die. Read full review
80
TheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanSep 5, 2025
Few films have been more unsparingly intimate. Read full review
80
Next Best PictureJosh ParhamSep 5, 2025
It’s a touching and moving homage that reminds us of the precious spirit that directs us towards remembering the deep love we have for family, through all its ups and downs. Read full review
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