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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | Edward Guthmann

    This is an amazing record of a group of lives -- and probably more resonant than anyone could have imagined when the project began. Read full review

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    This series should be sealed in a time capsule. It is on my list of the 10 greatest films of all time, and is a noble use of the medium. Read full review

  • 90
    L.A. Weekly | Hazel-Dawn Dumpert

    That nothing more monumental than an everyday life has occurred to any of the subjects is perhaps the film's most compelling aspect. Read full review

  • 90
    Village Voice | Amy Taubin

    The 7Up series is thus one of the rare documentaries to have had a positive practical effect on the life of at least one of its subjects. Read full review

  • 90
    The New York Times |

    When this hugely ambitious project began, it was a longitudinal study of class divisions among English schoolchildren. But time and persistence have turned it into much more. Read full review

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    Time is truly on Apted's side because the passing of time not surprisingly brings a richer, deeper perspective with each new segment. Read full review

  • 88
    Boston Globe | Jay Carr

    A miracle of data retrieval as the grown schoolchildren are measured against their footage from the earlier films. Read full review

  • 75
    New York Daily News | Jack Mathews

    I love this series; it's possibly the most exciting use of the documentary medium ever. Read full review

  • 67
    Austin Chronicle | Marjorie Baumgarten

    A living artifact that does what movies do best: exist in time. Read full review

  • 67
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    It would be tempting to describe the Up movies as a miracle in the history of nonfiction filmmaking, if they didn't also represent one of the cinema's most singularly squandered opportunities. Read full review

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