July 13, 2008
I'm not sure how I feel about this film...
Andrew Brackfield, Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett
"49 Up" is the seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 42 years ago when UK-based Granada's "World in Action" team, inspired by the Jesuit maxim "Give me the child until he is se...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 14, 2006
Stats: 427 reviews
Flixster Reviews (427)
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August 16, 2009Great series though I wasn't one of the people that apparently grew up watching it every seven years. I came by it via a Roger Ebert review.
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August 8, 2009first of all, this five star rating is a general rating to the whole series, aswel as the review. secondly, its a magnificent study, more than anything else. more than the label of documentary or tv show. I saw the whole series, from when the subjects were still children, until t...( read more)
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July 2, 2009I was bored. Maybe if I had seen some of the previous installments I would have dug it more.
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January 16, 2009Up Series - GENERAL REVIEW
GREAT, GREAT, GREAT series to watch these movies...started watching them all in order in 2007...
(by coincidence one of the subjects ends up living in Madison, WI!)
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August 9, 2008Along with the other installments of Michael Apted's long-running documentary series, this represents one of the tower achievements in the field-- and this is, arguably, the best installment yet
Critic Reviews
November 3, 2006
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
October 13, 2006
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
I'll wait breathlessly for 56 Up, and hope this brave group will speak to the camera again; giving us the gift of a share in their lives. full review
October 12, 2006
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
There are some clear themes to these zig-zagging life journeys, but they tend to be truisms (marriage is hard work but worth it) rather than chest-clutching surprises. full review
October 9, 2006
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
On the cusp of their half-century mark, Apted's British subjects have accommodated themselves to what they were, what they are, and what they will be. full review
October 6, 2006
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Taken as a whole, these films constitute one of the greatest uses of cinema a documentary filmmaker has ever devised. Like the other films in the series, 49 Up is alternately touching and mundane. full review
October 6, 2006
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Dropping by on the same people every seven years like an old friend -- or an unwelcome relative -- Apted has constructed a peerless, suspenseful work that develops character to a depth that would make... full review
October 6, 2006
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
49 Up marks the latest chapter in one of the most ambitious documentary projects in movie history. Make that the history of any medium, for how often do we get to witness a time-lapse study of human l... full review
October 4, 2006
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
The latest chapter in Michael Apted's documentary series shows that at 49, lives reveal more about marriage and the life cycle than about class.
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