[1] The film offers a look into the life and final days of Robin Williams, and how his struggles with diffuse Lewy body disease impacted his acting career and contributed to his death by suicide.

Initially resistant, Norwood said he wanted to help people "understand the pain [Williams] felt as his talents and faculties rapidly slipped away" and he hopes the film "rights a wrong that was done to him, and takes away a cloud that has unjustly hung over his legacy for far too long.

The site's critics consensus reads: "Robin's Wish offers an emotional look at the end of a life suddenly cut short—and pays warm tribute to the brilliant legacy that was left behind.

[7] Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter called the film "a moving coda to a life ended much too soon" and wrote: "Robin's Wish suffers at times from its lack of objectivity.

Nonetheless, the film, which incorporates testimony from several medical experts, fully succeeds in its admirable goal of using Williams' story to shed light on a disease with which many people were previously unfamiliar.