StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Beulah Bram A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

cikazuba If this would be a book , it would be written by Coelho. Other thing, documentary is so boring. 2h of linger, chewing something that could be much shorter. The story doesn't affect me at all and this is a very good story.The best thing about this documentary is that a guy who is 90 years old has his own teeth and the rest of his family has total prosthesis. Do you people have any dentist there or even more important, oral hygiene?! Jesus...That thing leave the biggest impression on me.

alextanischang What an incredible, fabulous and all the positive adjectives combined journey it is to watch such a beautifully done story Sarah Polley's family told.The movie is shocking but it shocked me in tender way, and tender myself immersed in for the entire movie. Polley tackled the story so proficiently and create a strong tense for it be remade into some kind of detective story, and isn't it so relating to our personal experiences, that we grew up, and discovered certain fragments which would fulfill a grandiose puzzle of our own family (and we just might not be able to finish it)).Heck, the point being, watch the movie, damn it.

Ocean Blue This is a recommended-to-watch movie, However, there were few things missing in the story. I think the story was told too good to be true. I mean everybody seem to be happy and satisfied with what happened. No matter how Dian had been behaving irresponsible and careless towards her children, her spouses and her lover in different occasions, they all speak as if because of Dians circumstances it was all right. It appears to me that since she has died years ago, everybody is OK with the facts and nobody is complaining and doesn't remember any resentment or doesn't want to remember it. Sarah is not taking part in telling thestory. she doesn't contribute to movie like others. she questions and directs but doesn't narrate anything herself. doesn't speak about her feelings. her point of view. all I can guess, is that she liked her mum(or maybe the story itself) enough, to edit the movie in a way that depicts everything being wonderful.

DexIMF Intriguing, but not as emotionally overwhelming for the audience as it is for the storytellers. There is ever so palpable, cold detachment from the story's emotional spine. Maybe, it's because of the lack of perspective of the person who wanted this story to be out there- Sarah Polley herself. You can sense subtle reactions coming from her whenever she is on screen, for however little time, and build her point-of-view in your head. But that would be just another version of story in this baggage of different perspectives. Also, I would rather she hadn't filmed dramatized clips of real-life incidents and trust the audience's imagination.All that being said, it does not take away anything from the fact that "Stories We Tell" is a fascinating concept. If nothing else, it works as a brilliant think-piece on subjectivity of memories and distorted truth by different perspectives.