“Passionate and persuasive… upends expectations”
“Engrossing, moving, and most importantly, confrontational”
“Cinematic rigor and full-hearted empathy”
“A decidedly complex work”
“Sensitive exploration… views things from a different angle”
— Variety
“Going to rock your world”
“Among the most surprising, insightful, moving, and politically far-reaching docs I’ve seen in a long while”
“Unspools like a thriller”
“Lays bare an entire fault line”
“Profound and unflinching, this documentary engages in philosophical terrain that is treacherous, challenging, and ultimately rich and necessary. Life After looks closely and critically at where progressive values of bodily autonomy and individual choice collide with latent fears of disability and an unequal value of the lives of disabled people. In doing so, Reid untangles an issue at the heart of our moral societal standing.”
— Ash Hoyle, Sundance Film Festival
The New Yorker | 02.07.2025
First Showing | 02.10.2025
The Contending | 02.05.2025
Slate | 01.30.2025
Variety | 01.27.2025
AV Club | 02.04.2025
Indiewire | 01.27.2025
Screen International | 01.27.2025
Awards Buzz | 01.27.2025
Forbes | 01.27.2025
Slug Magazine | 01.27.2025
Documentary Magazine | 01.28.2025
Film Comment | 01.27.2025
Filmmaker Magazine | 01.27.2025
Filmmaker Magazine | 01.27.2025
Filmmaker Magazine | 01.27.2025
Science.org | 03.13.2025
“That’s the strength of Life After: its keen, structural analysis of our presumptions about what a good life looks like—and who can have it—implicates us all, underlining the ethos of disposability so deeply embedded in the institutions we rely on for care.”
— Devika Girish, Film Comment
Screen Daily | 01.09.25
Screen Daily | 01.09.25
Sundance Institute | 07.24.2023
Variety | 04.06.2023
POV Magazine | 03.16.2022
The Gotham | 06.27.2022