Family Affair -- NYT Critics' Pick

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Reconnecting the Dots of a Scattered Family
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: November 18, 2010
This film is designated as a Critics' Pick

In America, where family values, talk therapy and on-camera confessions are equally popular, it’s no surprise that the dysfunctional-childhood documentary is something of a specialty. Yet even in a field becoming more crowded by the year, “Family Affair” emerges as one of its more complex and unsettling examples. More