Even when Light of My Life feels like it’s straining under the heaviness of its storytelling, there’s something about the way he guides us to an inevitable endgame that suggests the filmmaker knows what he’s doing. It’s not a pretty picture he paints here. But it makes you want Affleck to keep picking up that brush.

David Fear

Rolling Stone

The Road meets Leave No Trace with a sprinkling of another half-dozen sharper films, Light of My Life is Casey Affleck’s ode to the power of storytelling. Namely, Casey Affleck’s brand of storytelling: glacial, meandering, but not entirely ineffective.

Barry Hertz

The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Affleck has always been a wonderfully understated performer and he has taken that minimalist approach with him behind the camera.

Rory O'Connor

The Film Stage