Breakdown: 1975

Breakdown: 1975
Directed byMorgan Neville
Produced byMorgan Neville
Lauren Belfer
Narrated byJodie Foster
Edited byAlan Lowe
Jody McVeigh-Schultz
Music byDaniel Wohl
Distributed byNetflix
Release date
  • December 19, 2025 (2025-12-19)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Breakdown: 1975 is a 2025 documentary film exploring the year 1975 through the lens of American arts and culture, directed and produced by Morgan Neville.[1][2]

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 77% of 22 critics' reviews are positive.[3] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 49 out of 100, based on six critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[4]

Daniel Fienberg of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Breakdown: 1975 is packed with great clips and peppered with solid observations, but it's truly an odd documentary — one likely to be enticing for viewers with a casual interest in history or filmmaking, but infuriating for anybody craving even intermediate instruction."[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Fienberg, Daniel (December 18, 2025). "'Breakdown: 1975' Review: Morgan Neville's Netflix Doc Offers a Fun, if Unfocused, Glimpse at Hollywood and America in the Mid-1970s". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 2, 2026.
  2. ^ Wilkinson, Alissa (December 19, 2025). "'Breakdown: 1975' Remembers the Distinctive Cinematic Voices of an Era". The New York Times. Retrieved January 2, 2026.
  3. ^ "Breakdown: 1975". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved January 9, 2026.
  4. ^ "Breakdown: 1975". Metacritic. Retrieved January 2, 2026.