Reviews:

A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"One of the most moving and fascinating documentaries I've seen this year... Mr. Block has put his parents’ life, and his own, into this film with such warmth and candor that it may take more than one viewing to recognize it as a work of art."
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Ruthe Stein, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Block's hypnotic documentary, among the finest of the year, is a resounding success because it touches on things every child has wondered about on the road to adulthood. What really went on in your parents' bedroom? Did Mom or Dad ever mess around?"
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John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"Doug Block's very moving, honest and even suspenseful autopsy of his parents' marriage is the kind of film audiences leave the theater talking about, and which keeps them talking days later."
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Sam Adams, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"What makes "51 Birch Street" a moving revelation rather than a therapeutic exercise is Block's commitment to understanding his parents, Mike and Mina, on their own terms, regardless of what it does to his image of them."
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Lisa Scharzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"A warm and honest portrait of a marriage at its most mysterious, and ordinary."
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Ella Taylor, LA WEEKLY
"Wonderful... a loving, painful map of the gulf between thought and word, between word and deed, that props up good marriages, and sends bad ones to hell."
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