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“Passionate and persuasive… upends expectations”

“Engrossing, moving, and most importantly, confrontational”

“Cinematic rigor and full-hearted empathy”

Indiewire

“A decidedly complex work”

“Sensitive exploration… views things from a different angle”

Variety

“Going to rock your world”

USA Today

“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

In Review Online | 07.18.2025

Life After — Reid Davenport [Review]

“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

Film Comment | 01.27.2025

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