77
Metascore
5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91IndieWireSusannah GruderIndieWireSusannah GruderThe film feels like a tribute, and an eventual goodbye — to two extraordinarily unique people, their unconventional home, and their truly remarkable way of life.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterKeith UhlichThe Hollywood ReporterKeith UhlichGetting old, as Jackie and Don would have it, is part of their overall project. More than once they talk about the impermanence of the materials they use. One day, their art will cease to be, as will they. That Zen pronouncement doesn’t make the day-in/day-out drudgery of aging any easier.
- 75RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiRogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiFor the most part, So Late So Soon is a moving and thoughtful meditation on the inevitability of aging and mortality and the unstoppable lure of the creative process.
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreIn just 70 minutes, Hymanson has shown us what “soul mates” look like, and leveled with us about the best possible outcome for our final years, months and days. Not bad.
- 67The Film StageJared MobarakThe Film StageJared MobarakSo Late So Soon proves a warts-and-all expression of love, companionship, and the struggles intrinsic to the proximity inherent in both and how age makes everything harder.