 Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports 100% approval for "The Time to Live and the Time to Die", based on five reviews with an average rating of 8.2/10.Janet Maslin of "The New York Times" praised its cinematography and wrote that "much of the film is about suffering and loss, detailing the painful circumstances in which family members, one by one, grow ill and die.The simplicity and tact with which these illnesses are chronicled help to give an otherwise largely uneventful film some emotional impact…It's an unpretentious and largely unremarkable film that occasionally reaches unexpected depths of feeling."