Freud's Last Session

Name: Freud's Last Session
Genre: Drama
Released: December 22, 2023
Duration: 121 min
Rating: 48
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, David Shields, Jodi Balfour, Liv Lisa Fries, Matthew Goode

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: December 22, 2023

Starring: Anthony Hopkins, David Shields, Jodi Balfour, Liv Lisa Fries, Matthew Goode, Orla Brady, Padraic Delaney, Rhys Mannion, Stephen Campbell Moore, Thom Bishops

Summary: On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds on the twentieth century, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God. Freud's Last Session interweaves the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present, and through fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud’s study on a dynamic journey.

Director: Matt Brown

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 121 min

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Mick LaSalle

Jan 10, 2024

Germain and Brown open up the stage play with flashbacks, which are not nearly as effective as the two guys talking. But as long as they’re talking, and they talk enough, “Freud’s Last Session” is very much worth seeing. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Nov 1, 2023

So many movies are either mindless or completely disinterested with engaging the intellect of their audiences that Freud’s Last Session offers a welcome bit of brain stimulation — but does far less for the soul. Read full review

The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Dec 21, 2023

A stately affair that’s never particularly intellectually incisive or revealing, and its stolid execution fails to transcend the material’s inherent staginess. Read full review

Robert Abele

Dec 22, 2023

The leads give it their all — Hopkins’ vinegary parrying is especially lively — but the overall takeaway is of historical puppets playing philosophical gotcha, when we yearn for three-dimensional humans filling up a room with their lives, learnings and flaws. Read full review

Jake Coyle

Jan 4, 2024

The elements never quite cohere in “Freud’s Last Session.” The rhythm of conversation feels choppy and lacks the probing give and take that can electrify a two-hander. Read full review

The Telegraph Robbie Collin

Jun 13, 2024

Hopkins’ performance isn’t good, exactly, but it’s certainly interesting to watch, as the actor seems to swipe his lines of dialogue from the shelf in passing, as if playing a script version of Supermarket Sweep. Goode is restrained by comparison, but then the film does a lot of restraining on his behalf. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Jan 5, 2024

Tiresome digressions mixed in with philosophical banalities add up to a pointless, inert drama. Read full review

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