Much like the very lives of its characters, Sometimes I Think About Dying may look unremarkable at first, but it can be lovely when you really gaze under the surface.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2024

A story constructed without haste and with welcome arrests of tenderness and empathy that demands patience but ends up bearing fruit. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 7, 2024

Being open and honest with people about your inner thoughts can be more helpful than you may think... and even if the film surrounding such a message is perhaps too subtle to where it’s near subliminal, it’s a powerful thing to take away from it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 5, 2024

Sometimes I Think About Dying succeeds at being endearing and uncomplicated, spending some sincerely entertaining time with its two protagonists as they navigate something resembling a social or romantic relationship.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 23, 2024

Its unorthodoxly funny and playful despondent, but its terrific performances, sensitive direction, and emotional lessons ultimately serve as sources of hope.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 19, 2024

Sometimes I Think About Dying isn't a declaration of one woman's defeat, but instead an examination — at times, a confession even — of what everyone is thinking: being a person can sometimes be very hard.

| Jul 12, 2024

Despite its deceptively gloomy title, this lovely, small wisp of a movie explores themes of loneliness, trust, and perhaps even fate with a beguilingly quiet sense of poetry and mystery.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 3, 2024

Ridley's terrific, offbeat performance anchors the film and ensures that it is an effective and very relatable look at introversion and depression.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 2, 2024

Lambert is a trickster with narrative conventions, appropriating the love story for her own means but not indebted to its tradition.

| Apr 29, 2024

Between Ridley’s performance and Lambert’s delicate, dreamlike direction, Sometimes I Think About Dying elevates a pitch-black comedy about the daily grind into an extraordinary tale of a depressed introvert finding her place in the world.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2024

It’s almost anorexically slight, but Ridley’s performance holds the screen with an unforced minimalism that may come as a surprise to those more used to seeing her wield a lightsaber.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 22, 2024

The film would seem to tread overfamiliar comedy-drama territory, if not for this streak of the bizarre, and for Lambert’s eccentrically heightened visual style.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 22, 2024

As much as I longed to get to know Fran in this well-made indie flick, it ended up feeling that perhaps there’s just not much to discover.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 22, 2024

This angular, acutely perceptive little film is a comedy in the most melancholy of minor keys.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 21, 2024

It’s largely thanks to Ridley’s finely judged performance that this all works quite as well as it does.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 20, 2024

While aesthetically interesting, Daisy Ridley’s mannered performance in Sometimes I Think About Dying can’t save a movie that never quite gets off the ground.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 19, 2024

Daisy Ridley has never been better than as the shy, guarded lead of Sometimes I Think About Dying.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 19, 2024

The film does a lot with little... The naturalistic writing and directing means everyone arrives fully formed and believable.

| Apr 19, 2024

There is a definite sense of material being extended beyond its elasticity. Yet it’s a decent vehicle for Ridley that, like last year’s The Marsh King’s Daughter, shows she doesn’t need a galaxy far, far away to demonstrate her star (Wars) power.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2024

A character study about loneliness enlivened by some interesting stylistic flourishes and a lush string score that recalls some of Gus Van Sant’s work.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2024