Last Flight Home
MTV Documentary Films | Release Date: October 14, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
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11
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3
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinOct 12, 2022
Ultimately, and perhaps most beautifully, the film makes a case, à la the musical “Rent,” about how, in the end, we must measure our life in love. On that score, Eli Timoner left the world a very wealthy man. Read full review
90
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergOct 10, 2022
“Last Flight” is at once a memorial to Eli, the last of that generation of the family to die, and — almost incidentally — a philosophical argument about how death can be faced well. Read full review
83
The Film StageJohn FinkOct 10, 2022
Like caring for someone at the end of their lives, Last Flight Home might not be the easiest film to experience, but it is an accurate representation of the ups, downs, and mixed emotions of those times, crafted with compassion, nuance, and great warmth. Read full review
83
IndieWireDavid EhrlichOct 10, 2022
Yes, this crushingly personal film can make you feel like you’re intruding on a sacred ritual between perfect strangers, but that sense of trespassing (or TMI) is also what allows Last Flight Home to be such an immediate argument for the universal right to die. Read full review
80
EmpireJohn NugentDec 8, 2022
An emotional, incredibly intimate portrait of one man’s final days. Ondi Timoner’s documentary avoids the political aspects of the process, focusing squarely on the personal impact. The result is moving, humane, and cathartic. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawNov 23, 2022
This is an almost unbearably painful and emotional group family portrait. Read full review
80
Screen DailyAllan HunterOct 10, 2022
This is unflinching, but is very much a film of love and understanding Read full review
80
TheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanOct 10, 2022
Timoner uses a stripped-down, totally straightforward method. She sets up a camera in her parent’s living room, where her father is resting in a hospital bed and her mother is silently worrying on the couch. And then she begins counting down the days. Read full review
80
VarietyLisa KennedyOct 10, 2022
It is a tribute, a grappling with mortality, an exercise in self-surveillance, a messy home movie, a brief account of aviation history and a lesson in letting go and grief. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleJosh KupeckiOct 26, 2022
Guilt, shame, and regret are all frequent topics of discussion, as the family comes to terms with this impending event in wildly different ways. But however acutely intimate and emotionally formidable Last Flight Home can be (it is relentlessly both), it is thankfully tempered by the human being at the center of it. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comCarlos AguilarOct 7, 2022
As proven in Ondi Timoner’s unbelievably personal, profoundly bittersweet, and occasionally disquieting documentary “Last Flight Home,” having agency over one’s final departure isn’t exclusively reserved for those existing in conflict with the status quo. Read full review
60
Little White LiesSaskia Lloyd GaigerDec 10, 2022
It’s a highly uncomfortable watch – it documents the countdown to death in a determined yet uneasy way. Read full review
60
Time OutDavid HughesNov 28, 2022
It leaves the impression of a eulogy rather than a clear-eyed documentary. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 5, 2022
Any documentary that points to a way out of the agonizing, expensive, life-extending trap of “The American Way of Death” is worth a look. This one, affectionate and atypical, poignant and privileged, grates almost as often as it moves. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineClayton DillardOct 10, 2022
Last Flight Home is an anguished therapy session disguised as a meditation on life and death. Read full review
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