4:44 Last Day on Earth
IFC Films | Release Date: March 23, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
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75
New York PostV.A. MusettoMar 23, 2012
If the end of the world was just hours away, would New Yorkers still be able to get takeout? Yes, if Abel Ferrara's mind-bending 4:44 Last Day on Earth is any indication. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubSam AdamsMar 21, 2012
The improvised dialogue takes hairpin turns, some less fruitful than others, holding onto just enough traces of structure to sustain the film's brief length. Read full review
65
MovielineStephanie ZacharekMar 23, 2012
The picture is also weirdly compelling, maybe most notably for the way Dafoe's character - who is, in this respect, perhaps a stand-in for the Bronx-born Ferrara - seems to be grappling less with the idea that the world is ending than that the city is ending. Read full review
60
NPRScott TobiasMar 23, 2012
Best of all is the half-surreal, half-touching scene of the couple ordering Chinese delivery - needless to say, the tip is sizable - and inviting the courier to Skype his family one last time and share in a moment of common humanity. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenMar 22, 2012
Dafoe, who also starred in Ferrara's woefully underseen "Go Go Tales," brings a quiet grace to his role, while Leigh has a rough-hewn emotional directness. Read full review
60
The New York TimesA.O. ScottMar 22, 2012
Your last day - or, as it happens, the whole planet's last day - will be just like every other one. Mr. Ferrara makes this point with ingenuity and characteristic thrift by using found news footage to provide images of apocalypse. Read full review
60
Village VoiceKarina LongworthMar 20, 2012
The use of stock footage eventually approaches overkill in the montage-heavy climax. Much more impressive is the way Ferrara uses his own "documentary" footage of the city. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoApr 20, 2012
The movie is probably best appreciated by devotees of the cult director, who has made some good films and some interesting ones (and some that are both): "King of New York," "Bad Lieutenant," "The Addiction." "4:44" isn't quite in that company. Read full review
50
USA TodayScott BowlesMar 22, 2012
An hour into Earth and we're waiting for the film to end, not just the planet. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanMar 21, 2012
One of Dafoe's deadbeat friends observes, ''The world's been ending ever since it started, man,'' and you may think the same thing about this movie. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeMar 18, 2012
In his 4:44 Last Day on Earth, the auteur imagines the apocalypse from an aging NYC hipster's perspective, hitting melancholy notes that may ring true for a small segment of the art-house audience but, without the compelling presence of Willem Dafoe, would have little hope at the box office. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineJaime N. ChristleyMar 17, 2012
It's only natural that Abel Ferrara's vision of the end of the world should take corporeal form as a quasi-autobiographical hangout movie. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierMar 22, 2012
Feels stagy and anti-visceral. Read full review
40
Time OutJoshua RothkopfMar 20, 2012
Let's not make 4:44 Last Day on Earth sound cooler than it is. Compared with Lars von Trier's histrionically doomed "Melancholia," the film lacks any serious attempt to grapple with mortality. Read full review
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