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IMDb rating 7.2
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Critic Stefan Pape
rated 10

...a tender film, a warm production that manages to stay on the right side of sentimentality throughout.

Read full review at Common Sense Media
Critic Mark Kermode
rated 8

Kazuo Ishiguro elegantly adapts 1950s mortality tale.

Read full review at The Guardian
Critic John Nugent
rated 10

...a rare remake that only augments and enriches the original.

Read full review at Empire
Critic Matthew Huff
rated 9

...an extremely proper British film is the perfect vehicle for an extremely proper Bill Nighy.

Read full review at The A.V. Club
Critic Jacob Oller
rated 7

...Nighy makes Living worthwhile through sheer force of will. In the film’s picturesque, composed, nearly stagnant beauty, he finds something honest in repression.

Read full review at Paste Magazine
Critic Robbie Collin
rated 10

Bill Nighy is brilliant in this graceful, affecting Akira Kurosawa remake.

Read full review at The Telegraph
Critic Richard Whittaker
rated 8

Nighy, Ishiguro, and director Hermanus (Moffie) take Williams to a place of unexpected redemption, courtesy of a dirty old backstreet, with a vital moral: To live is to live as oneself.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle
Critic Ella Kemp
rated 8

...there is such piercing vulnerability in the delicacy with which Bill Nighy plays Mr Williams, a Big Smoke pencil pusher forced to reckon with what life really means before he draws his final breath.

Read full review at Little White Lies

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Living tells the story of a man who is forced to confront his own mortality and find meaning in his life after receiving a devastating medical diagnosis. Rodney Williams, a senior London County Council bureaucrat, is struggling to come to terms with the fact that he has a terminal illness and decides to take matters into his own hands. He withdraws his life savings and plans to commit suicide, but instead, he meets a writer who takes him on a night of adventure and self-discovery. Williams starts to question his life choices and decides to live life to the fullest while he still can. Along the way he meets a young woman Margaret who brings joy and vitality to his life. The film is a poignant and heartwarming story about finding meaning and purpose in life even in the face of death.

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