Review: How we remember our parents, and ourselves, is at the heart of Ben Stiller's dreamlike documentary

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Ben Stiller’s new Apple TV documentary, “Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost,” examines his legendary comedian parents, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara.

Using recovered letters, diaries and decades of personal film footage, Stiller explores how his parents’ artistic ambitions and work shaped his own childhood and identity.

The film reveals how family fame, competing ambitions and inherited pain create cycles that Ben and Amy have come to understand and confront as adults.

Ben Stiller has made a lovely, dreamlike film about his parents, the comedian-actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara , which is also a film about himself, his sister, Amy Stiller, and his own fatherhood as reflected b