Metascore 81, IMDB 7.5; Summary of reviews by the Wrap, JoBlo, not click bait

Metascore 81 (39 reviews), IMDB 7.5

The Wrap – by Robert Abele, December 19, 2022
Like most reviews by The Wrap, the link contains many spoilers
https://www.thewrap.com/living-film-review-bill-nighy-2022-ikiru/

A remake of “Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 “Ikiru” (“To Live”), the story of an aged bureaucrat who, after being diagnosed with a terminal illness, faces the emptiness of his life and takes on one final, affirming task... What “Living” has going for it... is a precisely adapted screenplay by Nobel Prize–winning author Kazuo Ishiguro (“The Remains of the Day,” “Never Let Me Go”), a locale that can draw on what’s uniquely stiff and stoic about Britain’s institutional mindset, a throwback visual approach nostalgically reminiscent of British films of the period, and most essentially, one of the UK’s great acting treasures — Bill Nighy...

JoBlo
https://www.joblo.com/living-bill-nighy-sundance-review/

Living nonetheless is an inspired, beautifully done remake that’s appropriately bittersweet. It’s a showcase role for the often underrated Nighy, who rarely gets to be a lead but is a terrific, emphatic leading man when given a chance.