Ultimately, though, the stifling bleakness and an improbable ending add up to a disappointing film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 27, 2021

Thanks to Marsan's considered and eloquent performance, and Pasolini's unabashedly sentimental approach to the subject matter, Still Life makes for a gentle, sombre, and reflective drama about finding life, even in death.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2018

The film rewards a look for the performance of Marsan alone.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 27, 2016

Still Life becomes a document of how far our reach goes as individuals.

| Original Score: B | Feb 24, 2016

You know your heart's meant to ache because of the musical motif that actually sounds like plucking on heartstrings.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 12, 2015

I was unprepared for the transcendent final moments, which left me suddenly and unexpectedly in tears.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 8, 2015

This is a gentle, well-observed drama with a very likeable performance from Marsan.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2015

I was intrigued by the prospect of the always-compelling Eddie Marsan playing a dull south London council funeral administrator in Still Life.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2015

Sombre and understated to a fault, but it also contains several quietly affecting moments, most of which are complemented by a beautiful score by Rachel Portman.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2015

It is a sad, muted film, speckled with many poignant and shrewd little visual touches about what solitude feels like.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2015

The presence of the great Eddie Marsan can't save this ponderous and sentimental Brit film about death and dying.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 5, 2015

This mopey British drama (2013) trades in easy ironies and self-satisfied humanism, throwing in a little ugly-duckling romance.

| Feb 2, 2015

Beautifully crafted and exquisitely observed with an outstanding performance from Eddie Marsan in the lead.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 2, 2015

With his charming second feature, writer-director-producer Uberto Pasolini has created a potent and poignant exploration of love and death, solitude and the breakdown of community.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 2, 2015

Marsan's technical precision as an actor is formidable, and he's wonderful to watch. But when the material's synthetic, as it is here, you wish Marsan could bust loose at the expense of the movie's obsessively orderly nature.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 29, 2015

Admittedly, it's a predictable storyline, as exciting to watch as it is to read, saved only by Eddie Marsan, who is absolutely superb as the large-hearted loner.

| Original Score: 6.4/10 | Jan 23, 2015

A soulful if obvious meditation on lives lived unshared, and one man's dedication to righting those wrongs while neglecting his own life.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 22, 2015

Still Life offers up much bittersweet comfort and joy as it reaches a most unexpected close.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 17, 2015

The film ends with a beautiful scene that will tug at your heartstrings.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 16, 2015

Eddie Marsan almost makes the equivalent of watching paint dry invigorating in Still Life. Almost.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 16, 2015