Through a series of quietly expressed and telling scenes, director Isabel Coixet steers a sure path between sentimentality and mawkishness: imminent death in the movies has rarely generated such humanity, such humour or such strength.

| Jan 11, 2018

Polley gives an outstanding performance...

| Apr 29, 2009

A gigantically amoral cliche of a film.

| Apr 1, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Fascinating.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

My Life Without Me is not a gentle film. Insistent and unforgettable, it wounds on the inside, and the scars feel fresh for some time.

| Sep 26, 2005

(...) Una de las pelculas ms hermosas que se hayan filmado sobre eso tan extrao y tan temido que es el tiempo que queda antes de morir.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 16, 2004

A grande fora (do filme) reside na poderosa performance da jovem Sarah Polley.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 14, 2004

Watching My Life Without Me is enervating. Coixet is so determined not to indulge the story's potential for sentiment that she overcompensates on the dreariness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 10, 2004

This is a film for people who like to cry, and there's a contrived element that's inherent to the beautiful-death genre. Still, Polley is the film's saving grace...

| Mar 30, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 2, 2004

Plagued by phony poetic moments and self-conscious quirkiness (Maria de Medeiros appears as a braid-wearing hair stylist obsessed with Milli Vanilli...)

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 19, 2004

A shameless, rather dull disease-of- the-week weeper.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 5, 2004

Gets that messy emotional juncture between bruised torment and naked despair just right

Full Review | Dec 31, 2003

It takes considerable sleight of hand, and a certain temerity, to fashion an uplifting tale about death. Yet My Life Without Me pulls it off.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 11, 2003

My Life Without Me thematizes the perennial problem of identifying with characters.

| Dec 5, 2003

a warm, melting analysis of life through the cold eye of death.

| Dec 2, 2003

Coixet doesn't make her lead character compelling, or likable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2003

It's not likely the viewer will get much from these experiences, either, altough the movie does have an ear for the mordantly funny line.

Full Review | Nov 21, 2003

My Life Without Me only has one way to go, and it makes some dippy turns getting there. But Polley makes the trip worth it.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Nov 21, 2003