It is a moving piece, especially in its last half.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 17, 2025

It's an ambitious approach... but Rene and Lucas gamble that by dramatizing the effects of AIDS on singular characters rather than generic representations, they will humanize the disease in a way that statistics cannot. Their gamble pays off.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 9, 2023

This film is heartbreaking, but replete with courage and macabre fun. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Nov 16, 2022

Longtime Companion is shocking and moving in its forthright attempt to make us look at the lives that AIDS touches.

Full Review | Sep 19, 2022

It was the first major film to deal with the AIDS epidemic and remains a forceful and passionate look at a group of friends supporting each other as they battle the virus.

Full Review | Dec 9, 2021

Longtime Companion confronts [our] pain and gives us hope by showing us how strong we are as individuals and as a group.

Full Review | Oct 5, 2021

The film unfortunately tells its stories too well, ghettoizing them to a narrative that remains oblivious to its own historical groundwork.

Full Review | May 21, 2020

Typically, we enter a scene a moment too early and leave it a moment too late, while the camera lingers over-long on faces expressing the obvious emotion.

Full Review | Apr 10, 2019

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011

One of the better hetero-friendly movies about gays.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Apr 9, 2007

Bearing the burden of being the first film about AIDS, Longtime Companion (which premiered at Sundance Fest) had the task of placing the crisis on the national agenda, which meant a gentler, kinder tone; even so, it's a touching, nicely acted feature

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Jan 24, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 4, 2004

Exceptional ensemble, heart-wrenching

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 10, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 5, 2004

Formally unadventurous, a little PBS-y, but undeniably moving as it evolves.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2003

A touching story, a bit preachy, but daring for its time.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 1, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 3, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 31, 2002