Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost
Apple TV+ | Release Date: October 17, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
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0
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0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Original-CinKaren GordonOct 23, 2025
It speaks to the legacy of things that are impossible to record: love, experience, encouragement, a sense of family and belonging that Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller gave to their children, and which continues through them into the next generation. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydOct 24, 2025
Stiller’s approach is musical; his assembly of clips and photos is musical — poetic, not prosaic Read full review
80
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergOct 23, 2025
At least two ideas running through “Nothing Is Lost,” which is streaming on Apple TV, and which takes its title from a line in a play that Anne wrote, give it a complexity that usually eludes profile-of-an-artist documentaries. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawOct 23, 2025
An intriguing, bittersweet family study. Read full review
80
Next Best PictureGiovanni LagoOct 7, 2025
Stiller and Meara: Nothing is Lost stands not only as Ben Stiller’s best film directorial work in years but also as a very personal keepsake for him and his family. With admiration, respect and honesty, this carefully crafted cinematic family album ensures his parents’ brilliance and love will never fade. Read full review
75
IndieWireDavid EhrlichOct 23, 2025
Life and art will always be more tightly entwined for Stiller than he knows how to untangle; that he’s at least learned to become aware of that is perhaps as touching and honest a tribute as he ever could have paid to his parents’ legacy. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 20, 2025
It’s a wonderful time capsule and a warm — with some reservations — remembrance of growing up in showbiz, the children of famous people who’d get stopped on the street, in the restaurant or wherever by strangers, even when the kids were the ones desperately wanting and needing their attention. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comJourdain SearlesOct 7, 2025
Stiller & Meara is a fascinating window into not only the history of this famous family but also the beautiful and punishing nature of performance itself. Read full review
70
Rolling StoneDavid FearOct 28, 2025
What starts off as a tribute turns into an autopsy of a long marriage as seen by the kids who witnessed the best and worst of it, done with humor, anger, hindsight, and empathy. Then it makes a hard left and examines the way that legacies, even ones with the best intentions, have a way of shaping us and sometimes setting us back and always, always leaving us with lessons to repeat or refute. Read full review
70
Screen RantGregory NussenOct 21, 2025
The film is so well put together, constructed with such warmth, that it does paper over its own indulgence. Read full review
70
VarietyOwen GleibermanOct 17, 2025
It turns out to be a very good film — canny and honest and unexpectedly moving. But it’s layered with a thick and sugary frosting of adoration. Read full review
70
ColliderRoss BonaimeOct 17, 2025
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost isn’t just a loving tribute to the great comedy duo of Stiller & Meara; it’s also a beautiful look at how much our closest ones impact us both during their lives and after they're gone. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterDaniel FienbergOct 7, 2025
In Nothing Is Lost, Stiller uses the public image and private artifacts of the parents he and the world knew quite well, pondering the gap between public and private, along with his own difficulties following in his parents’ footsteps as an artist, a spouse and a father. Read full review
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