89
Metascore
28 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyDick Johnson Is Dead is a funny, touching and, to be sure, unique film, and the Johnsons are a very fortunate father and daughter
- 91The Film StageJordan RaupThe Film StageJordan RaupProviding levity and comfort to ideas of mortality, Kirsten Johnson has illuminated the sweet embrace of death.
- 91Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattEntertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattLike a sturdier Mr. Rogers who just happens to prefer red anoraks to cardigans, Dick comes off as both a kind of holy sage and an extremely good sport — a man whose gentle, pure-hearted exuberance swells to fill nearly every frame.
- 88LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenLarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenWorks of art like these are more than creative endeavors. They function more as testaments: to the lives of their subjects, to the awfulness of death, and to the inspired ways we cling to the former, even in the face of the latter.
- 83The PlaylistJessica KiangThe PlaylistJessica KiangIt’s when Johnson strays from strict adherence to the concept that the most profound insights come.
- 75Slant MagazineKeith WatsonSlant MagazineKeith WatsonDick Johnson Is Dead is very much a film about its own making, one which repeatedly exposes its artifice.
- 75The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzYou’re unlikely to any time soon encounter a more thorough and energetic dive into the art of letting go. I look forward to Johnson’s next act, whilst I look over my shoulder.