The film is awash with psychedelic visuals, '60s cinematography and a dizzying mishmash of devices reminiscent of iconic films like Dr. Strangelove and The Pink Panther. However, like [Peter] Sellers himself, Life and Death lacks genuine personality.

| Mar 4, 2019

The film makes you care so little for its subject that you might be compelled to turn it off were it not for Rush's valiant mimicry.

| Jul 2, 2018

... as exhausting as it obviously is to play or be Pagliacci, by now it is just tiresome to sit still for yet another sad clown without a scintilla of surprise or insight.

| Jan 23, 2018

"The Life and Death of Peter Sellers'' is the rare celebrity bio that rises above its limitations to approach the magic of its subject matter.

| Jan 2, 2018

It has all of the ingredients to be a cunning interrogation of the form of a biopic, [or] a listless, unenjoyably prescriptive embodiment of the same, and it is in the end neither.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 4, 2016

"There was no real Peter Sellers"... As a theme, it smells of the tired cop-out, somewhere in the same clubhouse of desiccated phrases as "I love you, but I'm not in love with you" and "In a crazy world, only the mad people are sane."

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 13, 2012

A very good biographical picture of a human being who made people laugh, but could never find the humor in his own life.

| Apr 29, 2009

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 27, 2007

As a showcase for Geoffrey Rush, though, "Life and Death" is more than worthwhile.

| Original Score: B | Sep 24, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

flawed but buscinating tribute

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 26, 2005

| Original Score: 5/10 | Apr 30, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 21, 2004

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 17, 2004

A great impressionistic piece about an actor's fantasy becoming their reality. Director Hopkins really makes an exciting leap of faith.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2004

The best biopic you're likely to see this year won't be coming to a theater near you.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 5, 2004

We get movie scenes within movie scenes, and Rush as Sellers breaking character to become Sellers' mom or Edwards, commenting on Sellers, and it all draws too much attention to itself.

Full Review | Nov 30, 2004

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 6, 2004

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 6, 2004