In the end, you are of course left with no sympathy for Bernie Madoff–that’s to be expected. But you also have no greater insight into who he is and why he did it.

An emotionally riveting documentary that may very well be the most powerful group therapy ever caught on camera.

Though Mildred makes many choices that are reprehensible or downright dangerous, McDormand never fails to convince us of the fundamental decency of this woman, a tragic heroine struggling to find even the tiniest scrap of meaning in a comically awful world.

…a brave moment of truth-telling that rips the band-aid of fiction off contemporary television retellings of corruption, injustice, and systemic racism in this country.

As its characters traverse the country’s crisscrossing motorways, “Until the Birds Return” locates the singular moments that form the nodes of a shared national history.

It’s a brutal, blood-drenched story, but also a captivating and poignant generational saga that will stay with the viewer long afterward.