Robin's Wish Reviews
Robin was a man who could do it all. He could make us laugh. Make us cry. Make us cry with laughter. This touching tribute does the same.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 12, 2022
The 2018 documentary Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind will give you a wider view of his career, but the love and sadness seen here is affecting.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 11, 2021
Robin's Wish is both a loving tribute and a gentle call to action.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 11, 2021
It's certainly informative and affecting, but the limited use of early archive footage and the emphasis on Williams's decline and suffering make for bleak viewing.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 10, 2021
Comprising talking heads, and featuring little archive footage from the movies, it makes its case and gets out of the way before exhausting its welcome.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2021
There's little sense of the depth of Williams's legacy here, or what the world lost beyond a husband, a friend, and a colleague. Perhaps that pain is enough.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 6, 2021
Director Tylor Norwood's film is modestly scaled, a loving correction of the record rather than attempted biography.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 6, 2021
The medical insights into Lewy body dementia are interesting and Schneider Williams makes an estimable focus in her resilience and desire to raise awareness of the condition.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 5, 2021
A more fitting title may have been Susan's Wish, as it very much is an account of her working through the grief of losing her husband to such a horrible disease, and finding some purpose and meaning in that loss.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 4, 2021
Raw, utterly heartbreaking, incredibly insightful and inspiring to watch, this documentary leads with compassion and is an essential film.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 4, 2021
Both a loving tribute to the comedy maverick and a rallying call to aid early diagnosis and to discover a cure.
| Jan 4, 2021
There is just enough, however, of the "real" Williams to give the film some proper emotional heft.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2020
What a way to be remembered.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2020
More than a cut-and-paste showbiz tribute, the film poignantly reveals that Robin's overriding wish was, according to a signed copy of the Twelve Steps, "to help people be less afraid."
| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 14, 2020
You've heard a great deal in the last few years about the hidden pain behind the lives of most comedians, but this story is a unique one.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 8, 2020
A touching and heart-breaking exploration.
| Oct 2, 2020
As a film, Robin's Wish is marred by a weepy musical score, by inept visual choices, and by cheesy reenactments. But for fans, this short movie provides a bit of closure.
| Sep 17, 2020
Huge fans of the performer will likely shed tears at few parts throughout, but there's nothing especially unique or particularly thought-provoking about first-time director Tylor Norwood's filmmaking approach to make his documentary stand out.
| Original Score: C+ | Sep 16, 2020
...a documentary with a subject matter that is bound to resurface the sense of loss while informing how this disease took one of our most beloved entertainers.
| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 15, 2020
Touching tribute to Williams' life, struggle with dementia.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 15, 2020