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Documentary about aging and how to extend life expectancy. Cast:Phyllis Diller, Ray Bradbury, Suzanne SomersDirector:Mark S. WexlerRelease Date:May 13, 2011DVD Release:July 13, 2011From:Variance FilmsLength:1 hr 34 min
JULY 13, 2011
How to Live Forever, Good (Not Great) Reviews, Mixed (Doc) Key Cities
How to Live Forever played in key cities to good not great reviews. Reviews were mixed. • Colin Covert wrote in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, "...a hodgepodge of talking-head vignettes... FYI: Eat sensibly, exercise, keep your chin up and choose ancestors with good genes." • And Robert Abele wrote in the Los Angeles Times, "Wexler makes for an amiable tour guide..." More Reviews Below...
How to Live Forever Positive Reviews (15 Reviews, reviews below)
Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: VERY GOOD(cg) "If someone could give you a pill that allowed you to live for 500 years, would you take it?... I consider death to be the completion of the journey I embarked on at my birth..."(See all of Roger Ebert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 516 words, 06/17/11
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO/TORONTO (5 Reviews)
Rachel Saltz, New York Times: GOOD "Mr. Wexler has found interesting people and useful, funny and sometimes crackpot-seeming information.... Best of all, he never condescends."(See all of Rachel Saltz's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 318 words, 05/13/11
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "...a wry, hopeful yet enigma-appreciating documentary about the perils and possibilities that come with growing old.... Wexler makes for an amiable tour guide..."(See all of Robert Abele's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 229 words, 05/20/11
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD(cg) "If someone could give you a pill that allowed you to live for 500 years, would you take it?... I consider death to be the completion of the journey I embarked on at my birth..."(See all of Roger Ebert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 516 words, 06/17/11
Nick Schager, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "Eventually, filmmaker Mark Wexler can't quell his inner Morgan Spurlock, making himself the center of attention... life's too short for such self-indulgent glibness."(See all of Nick Schager's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 205 words, 05/11/11
KEY CITIES (5 Reviews)
Adam Bernstein, Washington Post: WEAK(cg) "...a moderately ingratiating, none too probing and largely predictable essay on the way people fear and embrace their senior years."(See all of Adam Bernstein's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 594 words, 07/29/11
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: MODERATE(cg) "...a hodgepodge of talking-head vignettes... FYI: Eat sensibly, exercise, keep your chin up and choose ancestors with good genes."(See all of Colin Covert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 148 words, 07/29/11
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: VERY GOOD(cg) "Mark Wexler's playfully made documentary about aging and its effects is much less a how-to manual than an observational story, people-watching of an interesting sort."(See all of Bill Goodykoontz's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 496 words, 06/24/11
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD(cg) "...much more thought-provoking than the sum of its parts. Anyone who stands to get old - which is all of us, last time I checked - would benefit from seeing it."(See all of Ty Burr's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 705 words, 08/19/11
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: POOR(cg) "...despite an engaging moment or two, Wexler's journey and his movie fail. No one ends up feeling any better about anything, not even Wexler, least of all the viewer."(See all of Mick LaSalle's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 300 words, 07/08/11
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE PRESS (5 Reviews)
Nick Schager, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "Eventually, filmmaker Mark Wexler can't quell his inner Morgan Spurlock, making himself the center of attention... life's too short for such self-indulgent glibness."(See all of Nick Schager's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 205 words, 05/11/11
Chris Faraone, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD(cg) "...a responsible yet lighthearted film about the absurd things that folks do in the face of death.... mocks the largely fraudulent 'anti-aging marketplace'..."(See all of Chris Faraone's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 154 words, 08/18/11
Sam Adams, AV Club: FAIR(cg) "Filmmaker Mark Wexler breaks the cardinal rule of first-person documentaries: Don't make yourself the subject unless you're worth paying attention to."(See all of Sam Adams's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 353 words, 05/12/11
Rachel Saltz, New York Times: GOOD "Mr. Wexler has found interesting people and useful, funny and sometimes crackpot-seeming information.... Best of all, he never condescends."(See all of Rachel Saltz's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 318 words, 05/13/11
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "...a wry, hopeful yet enigma-appreciating documentary about the perils and possibilities that come with growing old.... Wexler makes for an amiable tour guide..."(See all of Robert Abele's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 229 words, 05/20/11
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: EXCELLENT "Director Mark S. Wexler eschews ponderousness in favor of a wry, observant, open-minded approach in his most informative and often quite funny documentary..."(See all of Kirk Honeycutt's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 829 words, 05/09/11
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "...a wry, hopeful yet enigma-appreciating documentary about the perils and possibilities that come with growing old.... Wexler makes for an amiable tour guide..."(See all of Robert Abele's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 229 words, 05/20/11
Rachel Saltz, New York Times: GOOD "Mr. Wexler has found interesting people and useful, funny and sometimes crackpot-seeming information.... Best of all, he never condescends."(See all of Rachel Saltz's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 318 words, 05/13/11
24.0 Percentage Points Average Difference Between Reviews (Norm is 18.4pp; <18.4pp = More Consistent; >18.4pp = More Mixed)
How to Live Forever's reviews are separated by an average 24.0 percentage points. The norm for this measure is 18.4 percentage points. Less than 18.4 indicates more consistent reviews; greater than 18.4 indicates more mixed reviews. In the chart below, each dot represents a review, with the dots at the top more positive than the dots at the bottom. From left to right, the dots represent reviews in big, bigger and biggest publications. Roll over each dot for more detail.
How to Live Forever (15 reviews) Roll over dots for each review
Coverage:How to Live Forever's reviews cover 16.2% of potential readers (average is 67.9%). Volume:The film's reviews total 6,314 words involume (average is 20,194 words). Length:The film's reviews average 421 words in length (the norm is 517 words).
How to Live Forever Coverage, Volume & Length (15 Reviews, reviews below)
Reviews Broke 16 Days After Release (Norm is 1.2 Release)
How to Live Forever's reviews on average broke 16 days after opening. Norm for this measure is 1.2 hours before. The chart below shows reviews on opening day and the days before and after opening; the left side is earlier and the right side is later. The red bars extending above the horizontal mid-line represent more positive reviews, and the red bars extending below represent more negative reviews. The white space/red bar in the middle is How to Live Forever's opening day. Click on any bar for a list of the reviews for that day.
How to Live Forever (15 reviews, click on bars for reviews)
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