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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Screen DailyNikki BaughanScreen DailyNikki BaughanIn its refreshingly frank look at the end of life, Much Ado About Dying becomes a thought-provoking study of what it means to live.
- 80Wall Street JournalZachary BarnesWall Street JournalZachary BarnesMr. Chambers presents an attentive, sometimes painful and admirably unsentimental study of the everyday struggles of senescence and caretaking alike.
- 80The GuardianLeslie FelperinThe GuardianLeslie FelperinI can think of few documentaries that are more honest, self-scrutinising and revelatory about ageing, familial love and its limits, and the whole tragicomic process of dying.
- 80The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeThe Irish TimesDonald ClarkeThis is often a difficult film to watch. The subject’s physical frailty is palpable, and his resistance to even the least intrusive advice is infuriating. The atmosphere of fug, filth and peril is suffocating. But Chambers selects the footage cunningly to always allow whispers of charm to filter through the stubbornness.
- 58IndieWireVikram MurthiIndieWireVikram MurthiWhile Much Ado About Dying strives to be a tribute to caretakers and Chambers’ dearly departed uncle, its baggy structure, dictated by David’s declining health, renders the film frustratingly inert.