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No matter their wealth or social status, these people share disappointments and elations and a sense that life, in the end, may be what life is about.Full Review

Ty Burr
Boston Globe

I am not British, was born 14 years before the subjects, and yet by now identify intensely with them, because some kinds of human experience -- teenage, work, marriage, illness are universal. You could make this series in any society.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

49 Up is a precious document, and must viewing.Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

Michael Apted's landmark films documenting the lives of a disparate group of Brits in seven-year intervals have always been fascinating from a sociological perspective. But the latest installment proves that they are undeniably brilliant cinematically as well.Full Review

Frank Scheck
The Hollywood Reporter

One of the best things about Michael Apted's uniquely ambitious and continuing documentary series on the lives of a group of British schoolchildren is that you don't have to have seen the last one to enjoy the next.Full Review

Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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