"Delightfully insightful...Sneakily profound and unexpectedly personal...Open-hearted without tipping into sentimentality...The best kind of cinematic experience: an entertaining and enlightening 'meaning of life' movie...Green has given his subjects an incredible gift: the kind of immortality only cinema can provide.” Variety

"Takes a rewardingly personal turn...Gleans a real poignancy...A heartfelt, wistful, and aggressively poignant collection of interviews...An affecting watch...Green is such an open-hearted and genuine searcher...Time is reframed less as something to resist (or defy) than as something to embrace.” IndieWire

“Like a living work of art. The Oldest Person in the World is surprisingly, almost confrontationally life-affirming…This closeness, this intimacy, is the real source of the film’s power — especially in a world where it’s become so easy to avoid real-life human contact…Watching these people, their features embrittled by time and their eyes speaking to us of the unimaginable fragility of our own lives, we realize just how transformational and healing it can sometimes be simply to look into a stranger’s face.” Vulture

"People of all ages should give this encouraging documentary a spin; its well-lived lessons applicable from 0-99. What a gem." USA Today

“A poetic, stirring [documentary] contending with the slippery passage of time and a personal look at familial bonds and carrying values to the next generation." The Film Stage

“It’s a very beautiful movie. I loved it.” IndieWire

“A consistently surprising, deeply personal and strangely exhilarating exploration of what it means to be alive.” Observer

“One of the 10 best movies at the Sundance Film Festival.” Toronto Star