Time Goes by Like a Roaring Lion is a film built to mimic the lifeline of its filmmaker, who has matched its running time to his German male life expectancy. Bouncing between anecdotes related to chronophobia (the fear of time’s passing), sequences in the salt flats of Bolivia where time and space seem to briefly cease and autobiographical detail, it is one of the wittiest and most innovative documentaries of the year.
Daniel Walber on nonfics.com