Ondi Timoner’s Last Flight Home is a personal, emotionally raw documentary that deals with familial grief and saying goodbye to a loved one.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 25, 2024

Timoner’s doc goes even deeper into mediations on mortality by actually filming the process of his medically assisted suicide. . .the verité footage is heart-wrenching and powerful — and may be triggering for those who’ve recently lost a loved one.

| Feb 13, 2024

Ondi Timoner takes a bold step in her filmmaking career as she goes fully personal with her father's passing and puts herself, as well as her family, at the forefront of the fray in spectacular fashion. ... It's almost impossible to look away.

| Jun 16, 2023

"Last Flight Home" is a warts-and-all account of assisted death best viewed by the terminally ill and their loved ones.

| Mar 27, 2023

This is obviously a film that is much easier to commend that recommend. One doesn’t simply sit down and watch a movie like Last Flight Home. But those who are prepared to invest in a narrative such as this will be richly rewarded...

| Feb 2, 2023

Last Flight Home is a deeply personal and rather difficult documentary, demonstrating precisely what it looks like to die with dignity and chose when that time will be for yourself.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 4, 2023

Eli Timoner gave us a manual for how to live; documenting her father’s life and death, Ondi gives us a manual for how to say goodbye.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 9, 2022

Moving, humane, and cathartic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 9, 2022

If you’re planning on seeing The Last Flight Home at the cinema, don’t make any plans for afterwards as you’ll be completely done in. I soaked the top half of my jumper with the crying, and then needed to race home to wring it out.

| Nov 30, 2022

Ondi Timoner's visual narrative about dad Eli's life, final days in hospice care, and family legacy is memorable storytelling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 29, 2022

Brave, informative, but exclusive.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 29, 2022

Despite Last Flight Home‘s shortcomings, it’s difficult not to be fond of the heart at its center. Timoner keeping everything working just enough that, when the end does come, it’s devastatingly cathartic.

| Nov 23, 2022

Ondi Timoner’s home-movie memoir is a heartbreaking and unexpectedly complex film about her elderly father in his final days.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 23, 2022

Last Flight Home gets up close and personal with death as it confronts viewers with the heartache and pain that comes with it. Alongside the sadness, Timoner creates a poignant and endlessly moving tribute to love.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 23, 2022

A gentle thanatological document on euthanasia... [Full Review in Spanish]

| Nov 18, 2022

A thoughtful and wrenching goodbye.

| Nov 1, 2022

Timoner’s respectful camera, like an unobtrusive observer, never leaves Eli, even at the moment of his death, a sequence that is at once ineffably upsetting and oddly unremarkable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 31, 2022

Last Flight Home becomes a deeply moving inquiry into what the measure of a man truly is

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 27, 2022

The film could have have benefitted from being pared down.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 19, 2022

Although there are inevitable moments of self-indulgence, it’s a powerful tribute to life, love, and human connection.

| Oct 19, 2022