Last Letter from Your Lover
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): July 23, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
12
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The Observer (UK)Simran HansAug 9, 2021
Indecision and miscommunication, it turns out, are timeless. Sexiness less so, with Jones and Rizwan not quite able to summon the smouldering chemistry of Woodley and Turner. Read full review
80
The TelegraphTim RobeyAug 6, 2021
If there’s a chink in your emotional armour, there’s simply no resisting what this film has to offer. Read full review
70
TimeStephanie ZacharekJul 22, 2021
Even when the story falters, or becomes astonishingly silly, there’s still plenty to keep you gazing at the surface. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeJul 22, 2021
The Last Letter From Your Lover is a pleasant watch, and will charm romance enthusiasts. Read full review
67
The PlaylistMarya E. GatesJul 22, 2021
Ultimately The Last Letter From Your Lover is exactly like the beach read from which it was adapted: lavish, breezy, and inconsequential. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comNell MinowJul 23, 2021
If you are in the mood for a "they don't make movies like that anymore" movie, meaning soapy melodrama with enough glamorous glow to keep you from thinking too hard, then The Last Letter From Your Lover might do the trick. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineWes GreeneJul 22, 2021
Across the film, director Augustine Frizzell balances a dynamic aesthetic energy with a generosity of spirit. Read full review
60
The Irish TimesTara BradyAug 6, 2021
It’s certainly not the film we were expecting from the talented Augustine Frizzell, writer-director of the giddy stoner-girl comedy Never Goin’ Back and the pilot episode of Euphoria. It is, rather, a moneyed, sumptuous diptych of temporal-jumping love stories. Read full review
60
Time OutSophie Monks KaufmanAug 2, 2021
Amid lush period costumes, the chemistry between Woodley and Turner proceeds with gratifying slowness, each step down an irreversible path measured and counted. Read full review
60
Screen RantRachel LaBonteJul 23, 2021
The Last Letter From Your Lover is a charming look at two love stories, and while it's hardly anything new, the film holds plenty of warmth. Read full review
60
The New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaJul 22, 2021
In short, it too efficiently glosses over multiple plotlines to have much of an emotional impact. What remains are mostly generic beats. Still, the formula is engrossing enough, and its midcentury vintage appeal — the pillbox hats, headscarves and swanky soirees — is particularly seductive. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangJul 22, 2021
[The] story never fully comes into focus. You catch glimpses of it in between the busy, mechanical lurchings of the plot, in the swirling movement of a camera pan and the ardent commitment of the actors. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubLeila LatifJul 22, 2021
What the adaptation has going for it is two charismatic young stars, Felicity Jones and Shailene Woodley, pitching in to tell an enjoyable but extremely conventional story. Read full review
58
IndieWireKate ErblandJul 22, 2021
At best, it’s a suitable companion piece to the novel; at worst, it’s a lackluster feature bolstered only briefly by flashes of real human emotion. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreJul 26, 2021
The leads make this tolerable. Read full review
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Movie NationRoger MooreJul 26, 2021
The leads make this tolerable. Read full review
50
VarietyGuy LodgeJul 23, 2021
Frizzell tackles the period portion of the saga with some directorial verve, committing to its saturated, hyper-styled romanticism and shameless storytelling contrivance to a degree that is all but irresistible — and unfortunately leaves the remainder of the film feeling anonymous and less involving by comparison. Read full review
40
EmpireElla KempAug 6, 2021
A handsome epistolary affair gives way to a more formulaic matchmaking story, in an alluring romance that loses its shine. Maybe some things are better left in the past. Read full review
40
The GuardianAdrian HortonJul 22, 2021
The central romance here is, on paper, a love for the ages, a story of all-consuming passion. It’s not quite so in practice. Read full review
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