There is a touching universality to these life stories, which at this point have a lulling near-sameness...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 20, 2020

At first glance, 21 Up played as somewhat of a novelty. That was over forty years ago. Today, it stands as one of cinema's greatest achievements, a use of the medium that's at once blatantly logical and profoundly affecting.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 29, 2020

This film and its predecessors are a mirror to all.

| Original Score: A | Jan 23, 2020

Kim Horton skillfully weaves together clips from past films - the participants' lives inside a fishbowl literally flashing before our eyes - and both Apted's narration and his gently needling, off-camera interrogations give you all the context you need.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 9, 2020

Because of this sense of an approaching end-in a world which, in any case, is tending to see the future in apocalyptic terms-63 Up may be the most revealing episode yet.

| Dec 20, 2019

The participants in Michael Apted's ongoing social experiment, which began with "Seven Up!" in 1964 and has become increasingly fascinating, have reached the age where they can see the approaching exit sign in their lives.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 20, 2019

Cherish 63 Up, like you cherish life.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 19, 2019

[T]he real brilliance of "63 Up" and its predecessors isn't the light these movies shine on Tony, Jackie, John, Neil and the rest, but the mirror they hold up in front of us.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 10, 2019

The tone has become melancholy and wise.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 9, 2019

Heartwarming... It's quite poignant.

| Dec 7, 2019

It's very touching... There's a lot to love in this movie.

| Dec 7, 2019

A melancholy reminder that nothing lasts forever.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 27, 2019

What's striking is not just the sturdy durability of family and community, but the fundamental decency of just about every participant in this long cultural experiment.

| Nov 27, 2019

A perfectly satisfying summing-up of what's proven to be the surest motive for any of its participants to keep filling us in on their personal lives - they did it because time, love, and just enough fortune allowed it.

| Nov 27, 2019

There's great pleasure in revisiting this series, seeing who turned out just fine and sometimes better than you might have expected or hoped.

| Nov 26, 2019

Now back to look at its diverse group of Brits at age 63, the project is settling into a grandfatherly comfort.

| Nov 25, 2019

Throughout, the remaining participants take stock of private and career successes as well as perceived failures.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 22, 2019

So beautiful and bittersweet.

| Original Score: A | Nov 11, 2019

If this is the final chapter, as Apted suggests it could be, it's a worthy cap to one of the boldest experiments in world cinema.

| Sep 5, 2019

We identify intensely because they are just like us and have had to negotiate the same experiences as us, and the series, which was once voted the greatest documentary of all time is, in effect, a meditation on what it is to be alive.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 10, 2019