Sara Bareilles: Good Grief

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For the first time in seven years, Grammy winning singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles returns to the studio with dear friends to begin recording her most intimate album yet, born of profound personal loss and grief. Internationally known for pop anthems like "Love Song" and "Brave", this cinematic portrait observes the most private corners of Sara's creative process as well as her personal life. What unfolds in front of the camera is the incredibly raw experience of mining one's own pain to create art, and the hope that carries an artist forward: that sharing what is broken in oneself might ultimately bring us closer to healing and repair.

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Carla Hay

Culture Mix

Jun 6

This weepy, self-indulgent, and frequently dull documentary shows recording sessions that often look more like whiny therapy sessions. The songwriting and vocal talent are overshadowed by pity-party crying over infertility, motherhood, and death.

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Douglas Davidson

Elements of Madness

Jun 5

4/5

... at once, private, intimate, and raw, while also a hilarious celebration of human existence, demonstrating that the people we surround ourselves with, the village we make, can be the difference between finding solid ground or drowning in loss.

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Peter Gray

The AU Review

Jun 5

4/5

Warm, cathartic, and disarmingly honest, Sara Bareilles: Good Grief is less a documentary about recording an album than it is a portrait of what it means to keep creating – and keep loving – after loss.

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Carla Renata

The Curvy Film Critic

Jun 5

Good Grief gives the audience permission to evolve into a better version from being in the orbit of someone we loved and who loved us illuminating the way like the brightest star in the orbit just waiting for the chance to shine.

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Mike McGranaghan

Aisle Seat

Jun 5

Good Grief is an illuminating film about how an album is recorded. It’s an even better film about how pain can be transformed into something healing.

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Alexis Vargas

Sara Bareilles created a safe space to break open with grief with strangers. There wasn’t a single dry eye in our theatre! A beautiful balance in storytelling of the salt, sour, and sweetness of being human. You felt like you were in the room where the album bloomed. An unforgettable, intimate, and vulnerably beautiful experience.

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Director: Josh Alexander
Producer: Josh Alexander, Daniel J. Chalfen
Screenwriter: Josh Alexander, Josh Alexander
Distributor: mTuckman Media
Production Co: The deNovo Initiative, Naked Edge Films, Group Effort Films, Submarine Entertainment
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 2, 2026, Limited
Runtime: 1h 34m

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