Last Resort
Shooting Gallery | Release Date: February 23, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
80
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
Positive:
21
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
Thanks to the wonderful performances from both Korzun and Considine, there isn't a forced or dishonest moment on-screen. Read full review
90
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
A huge delight. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
This is the best class of poetic realism, the kind you can believe in without a trace of hesitation. Read full review
89
Mr. ShowbizMichael Atkinson
Maddin's movie is, frame for frame, the densest and most spectacular (albeit cardboard-cheap) film playing anywhere. Read full review
88
Chicago TribuneLoren King
A film that celebrates simple human kindness. If the ending feels somewhat unsatisfying, it is perhaps because one hates to see this too-brief film end at all. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Moving and eerily beautiful. Read full review
80
Dallas ObserverGregory Weinkauf
His (Pawlikowski) love story, which is by turns sensuous, charming, and uniquely moving.
80
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Sweet, melancholy comedy; it's ineffable charm lies entirely in the delivery. Read full review
80
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
The movie's a beauty. Read full review
80
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
A hopeless romantic meets a hapless realist in this gritty, elegant drama brimming with spontaneous-seeming close-ups. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter Rainer
Unsatisfying at a very high level. It fritters away more than most movies ever offer up. Read full review
80
Film.comErnest Hardy
It's a sweet and wise film - neither groundbreaking nor revolutionary save for the fact that it places narrative and character arc at the center of its concerns. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
I like the way Last Resort ends, how it concludes its emotional journey without pretending the underlying story is over. You walk out of the theater curiously touched. Read full review
75
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
The new movie year's poignant love story to beat. Read full review
75
New York PostLou Lumenick
A little gem. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Quiet, finely etched and beautifully acted by Dina Korzun and the wise-beyond-his-years Artiom Strelnikov. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
A slice of life in the most profound sense. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleWesley Morris
A must-see. Read full review
70
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Compelling, if sometimes grittily depressing, viewing. Read full review
70
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Pawlikowski, whose background is in documentary film, has an eye for the menacingly forlorn and elegantly bleak. Last Resort, which was shot without a script and developed largely in collaboration with the actors, is a kind of verité fantasy. Read full review
70
The New York TimesDana Stevens
Though Last Resort dwells on sorrowful circumstances and illuminates a grim corner of contemporary reality, it is far from depressing. Read full review
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