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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIf someone could give you a pill that allowed you to live for 500 years, would you take it? Not me.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttHow To Live Forever is less about how to delay or defeat death than a film about what gives life meaning.
- 70VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyThe prospects, advisability and potential methods of prolonging human life are examined in an engagingly multifaceted manner in How to Live Forever.
- 70The New York TimesRachel SaltzThe New York TimesRachel SaltzMr. Wexler has found interesting people and useful, funny and sometimes crackpot-seeming information.
- 70Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleThe cheeky title How to Live Forever belongs to a wry, hopeful yet enigma-appreciating documentary about the perils and possibilities that come with growing old.
- 70Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesChicago ReaderJ.R. JonesWexler emerges from all this with the commonplace wisdom that laughter and a positive outlook both prolong life and make it worth living, though his vocal concern with his own aging keeps the film from growing pat.
- 50Boxoffice MagazineTim CogshellBoxoffice MagazineTim CogshellMuch of the film is taken up with Wexler's musings about his own mortality and physical, shall we say, decomposition.
- 40Village VoiceNick SchagerVillage VoiceNick SchagerSuffice it to say, life's too short for such self-indulgent glibness.