Preparation for the Next Life Movie (2025): Where to watch and stream online

Preparation for the Next Life

2025, Movie, 1h 56min

Aishe, a Uyghur woman trained by her military father, migrates to New York City where she finds herself laboring in Chinatown’s underground kitchens. She fatefully encounters Skinner, a young American soldier who has just returned from three tours in the Middle East. While falling in love, they discover the possibility of a better life together than the ones they believed they were destined to live alone.

Country: United States

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Reviews

Critic Derek Smith

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It’s all part and parcel of Preparation for the Next Life’s clear-eyed portrait of life on the edges of American society, where the disappearance of social safety nets has made that life that much tougher to endure.

Read full review at Slant Magazine

Critic Isaac Feldberg

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...is as sensitive to such painful, implacable realities as it is alive to the possibilities that nevertheless emerge, in small moments of tenderness and connection, between its characters.

Read full review at Roger Ebert

Critic Richard Whittaker

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...wends its way through the contradictions and tragedies of love between two people who need more than just a bed warmed by another body.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

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Preparation for the Next Life will be released on December 12, 2025