Alive Inside is a hopeful and inspiring film.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 1, 2020

Nothing to do with death.

| Aug 19, 2019

Not only is Alive Inside a tightly executed film, its' screening at this year's Sundance Film Festival took home the Audience Award in the documentary category.

| Nov 8, 2018

Terribly maudlin and ultimately exploitative.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 31, 2018

What remains undoubtable is how deeply moving it is to watch one shut-in after another be let loose, in a moment, by sound.

| Aug 17, 2017

[Alive Inside] goes for the visceral instead of the intellectual, and in that it's a success.

| Aug 14, 2017

Alive Inside is a worthwhile reminder that life is a beautiful thing, and that something as simple as music can unlock the life within our most isolated peers.

| Nov 5, 2015

(Director Michael) Rossato-Bennett and (subject Dan) Cohen struck me at times as being perhaps a little too self-congratulatory, yet the significance of this beautifully-composed documentary and the breakthroughs it depicts can't be denied.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 30, 2014

"We are made to age," filmmaker Michael Rossato-Bennett says about halfway through "Alive Inside," which may be the most radical statement you'll hear in a movie theater all year.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 25, 2014

The iPods of Youth

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 28, 2014

"Alive Inside" contains a tiny revolution within its message, and will likely end up being one of the most important documentaries of the year.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 23, 2014

Whle it an be faulted for its shortcomings as a film and even as an argument, it's welcome for providing a glimpse of what amounts to an alternative treatment for the ever-growing number of Americans suffering from dementia.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 21, 2014

Music here seems to have a miraculous power to lift up, to awaken, to reinvigorate.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 21, 2014

Gratifying documentary.

Full Review | Aug 20, 2014

Equal parts heart-wrenching and heart-lifting ...

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 14, 2014

Delivers significant emotion with a uneasy topic, finding a rich sense of hope in the seemingly hopeless inevitability of aging.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 14, 2014

It's not a particularly well-made movie, and the earnestness on the part of the filmmaker is such that you may find yourself wishing he'd left himself out of the process.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 7, 2014

I would have preferred a documentary that did more presenting and less pushing. But...the music's vivifying effect on old souls made for some of the most moving scenes I've seen all year.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2014

The movie effectively bullies you into feeling good; with its hard sell and superfluous CG imagery, it might as well be a superhero movie.

| Aug 7, 2014

The movie is at its best when documenting the reactions of various patients, which in some cases is nearly miraculous.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 7, 2014