With this inventive portrait, director Kirsten Johnson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever. Utilizing moviemaking magic and her family's dark humor, she celebrates Dr. Dick Johnson's last years by staging fantasies of death and beyond. Together, dad and daughter confront the great inevitability awaiting us all.
Dick Johnson Is Dead has generally received very positive reviews.
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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 02 Oct 2020
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Dick Johnson Is Dead was released in 2020 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 39 reviews, giving Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020) an average rating of 77%.
Overall, film critics marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 88%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 83%.
With a score of 77%, Dick Johnson Is Dead is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2020, which stands at 59%.
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