Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. A heartbreaking masterwork from Kurosawa with nary a samurai in sight.
2. It is a strangely fascinating and affecting film, up to a point.
3. Simultaneously an intensely human story, a timeless snapshot of postwar Japan, and a scathing satire of the bureaucratic mind-set.
4. Kurosawa has created a subtle and moving account of a man who searches for meaning in the final days of his shallow existence.
5. Sad, mournful and devastating, Ikiru is one of Kurosawa's most impressive achievements
6. If you have never seen it, you should. If you have seen it before, your admiration will only increase.
7. I go to the movie theater every week in hopes that someone out there still wants to make a film like "Ikiru."
8. Ikiru is a thoughtful and truly well-made film, wherein Kurosawa has the opportunity to explore the human condition more fully than in his action-packed adventures
9. An unqualified masterpiece that just may be Kurosawa's best.
10. May not be the first movie you think of when ticking off the list of Kurosawa's best films, but it is the one that stands defiantly as his deepest, best acted and most watchable.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?
Ikiru is a well-acted and deeply moving humanist tale about a man facing his own mortality, one of legendary director Akira Kurosawa's most intimate films.