- 2019
- Glass Half Full Media
- 2 h 3 m
SummaryThe survivors of four generations of a Jewish family are rocked to their core when the family’s beloved 92-year-old matriarch makes a stunning confession.
Directed By:Jeff Lipsky
Written By:Jeff Lipsky
The Last
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Mar 29, 2019
80
To say that thespians live for opportunities such as this is an understatement, and Schull, whose restrained underplaying only makes the material more powerful, makes the most of it.
Mar 28, 2019
80
As the impossible Claire, the longtime character actor Rebecca Schull (a 90-year-old playing 92) is spectacular. Her character is lucid in her awfulness, and she almost never shuts up, relating endless anecdotes that don’t just force her family to face awful truths, but rub their noses in them.
May 1, 2019
70
Schull's quietly commanding performance is a stunning piece of acting, in which the character seems to reveal new layers every time she's on screen.
Apr 25, 2019
50
Veteran performer Schull, perhaps best known as Fay on TV’s “Wings,” gives a towering, fearless turn; the other main actors are fine as well. Still, one must yield to the film’s flat shooting style, lengthy monologues, dangling questions and awkwardly rendered, dubiously earned ending.
Mar 29, 2019
50
Compared with “Us,” also in theaters now, the movie feels benign, almost polite — which can’t possibly be what Lipsky had in mind. No, he seems determined to shock, but his films are like those proverbial trees, falling noisily in empty forests. That’s not to say Lipsky should stop making movies — one hopes The Last won’t be his last — but that it might be a good time to take a serious look at what he’s trying to achieve, if hardly anyone’s paying attention.
Aug 20, 2019
12
A perplexing conundrum of a film: a potentially profound concept buried beneath layers of amateurishness.
By Travis DeShong
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Apr 8, 2019
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I saw this movie in a theater where management allows audience members to post a rating as a letter grade along with a very short review on a bulletin board. When I looked at the grades for this film, I saw something that I had never seen before. Several moviegoers gave it a grade of “FFFF”! I had already bought a ticket so I went in and lasted about an hour before walking out. The premise of this film promises to be very interesting, but the film itself is intolerably dull. People talk and do things, but the result makes little sense.
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Production Company:
- Plainview Pictures
Release Date:Mar 29, 2019
Duration:2 h 3 m
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Tagline:What would you do
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