Remake (2025 film)
2025 American documentary film
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Remake is a 2025 American documentary film directed and produced by Ross McElwee. It follows McElwee reevaluating his approach to filmmaking following the death of his son and the effort to adapt his project Sherman's March (1986).
- Ross McElwee
- Mark Meatto
- Ross McElwee
- Adrian McElwee
- Ross McElwee
- Joe Bini
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| Directed by | Ross McElwee |
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| Distributed by | Music Box Films |
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Running time | 114 minutes[2] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
It had its world premiere out of competition at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2025, where it won the Golden Globe Impact Prize for Documentary.[3] It is scheduled to be released on July 10, 2026, by Music Box Films.
Premise
Follows Ross McElwee revelauting his approach to filmmaking following the death of his son and the effort to adapt his project Sherman's March (1986).
Release
The film had its world premiere out of competition at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2025.[4] In April 2026, Music Box Films acquired distribution rights to the film, and set it for a July 10, 2026, release.[5]
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 100% of 10 critics' reviews are positive.[6] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 92 out of 100, based on seven critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[7]
Phil de Semlyen of Time Out gave the film five out of five stars, writing: "Emotionally shattering."[8] Vikram Murthi of IndieWire gave the film an A−, writing: "Remake, like all of McElwee's personal cinema, embody the passage of time itself. In other words, it's the stuff of life."[9]