One Last Kiss
THINKFilm | Release Date: August 2, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
Positive:
17
Mixed:
8
Negative:
2
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100
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
Stops your heart and keeps your belly jiggling with laughter. It's an improbably sunny tragicomedy. Read full review
100
The New YorkerDavid Denby
An Altman-influenced movie made without the master's acrid bitterness. The Last Kiss may come out of Italian opera and comedy, but in spirit it's Shakespearean -- objective, impassive, and at peace with a world in which men and women manage to be both ordinary and extraordinary. [5 August 2002, p.80]
91
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
A crowd-pleaser in the deepest sense, mixes heartbreak and happiness together until you don't even want to see them apart. Read full review
90
VarietyDavid Rooney
Craftily combining elements that speak directly to three different generations, this accomplished ensemble piece is shaping up to be the surprise homegrown hit of the season. Read full review
88
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
While Last Kiss may strike some as a calculated crowd-pleaser, it's cleverly calculated, perceptive and often quite funny -- and a bit darker than it may first appear. Read full review
88
Boston GlobeJules Verdone
More movies should be so funny and perceptive, with writing this sharp and acting this believable. Read full review
88
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
In the end, The Last Kiss holds less a cynical view of the matrimonial state than one of considered irony. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter Rainer
It's a frisky, funny roundelay starring Stefania Sandrelli, and it features enough shouting and arm-waving to power a windmill. Read full review
80
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Think "Sex and the City" with men, only in Italian and with lots more hollering and hand gestures. Read full review
75
Portland OregonianKim Morgan
You get to know each person just well enough to compare them, allowing you to judge as you like; the film, nicely, refrains from moralizing. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Both a witty ode to and a poignant lament for the choices we make. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
Its portrait of the many ways we can complicate our romantic lives may have a few serious moments, but it's intended to go down easy, and that's what it does. Read full review
70
The New York TimesDave Kehr
Provides more than enough sentimental catharsis for a satisfying evening at the multiplex. Read full review
70
Washington PostDesson Thomson
It's not Fellini, by any means, but it's lively. Never stops moving, even though it crashes into cliches along the way. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyDan Fienberg
The air of self-imposed misery can dampen the film's humor, but Muccino never stays still long enough for the emotions to become leaden, and the strong cast carries the film to its striking, bittersweet conclusion. Read full review
63
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
The vigorous, unsubtle acting provides consistent pleasure, once you stop expecting it to seem realistic. Read full review
63
New York PostMegan Lehmann
Walking a tightrope between high farce and emotional truth, writer-director Gabriele Muccino's breathlessly paced Italian comedy The Last Kiss manages to stay just this side of melodrama. Read full review
60
Film ThreatMerle Bertrand
Makes a good chick flick for guys who want to appear artsy by taking their date to a foreign language film. Just remember: front row...and don't forget the aspirin. Read full review
60
New Times (L.A.)Gregory Weinkauf
It's the usual struggle of growing up and growing old, but Muccino's twists are plucky and revealing when he's not suffocating us with heavy-handed mortality and pathos. Read full review
60
Chicago ReaderHank Sartin
Almost frantically intercutting between the characters, the movie spends so much energy trying to charm us that when the emotional stakes are raised we're too exhausted to care. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Even the film's ironic ending is deftly handled, its cynicism is tempered by a certain rueful wisdom. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The message behind all of this is difficult to nail down. Mars and Venus? Adults who haven't grown up? The last fling syndrome? Doing what you want instead of doing what you must? Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen Cole
Though credibly performed and photographed, it's hard to care about a film that proposes as epic tragedy the plight of a callow rich boy who is forced to choose between his beautiful, self-satisfied 22-year-old girlfriend and an equally beautiful, self-satisfied 18-year-old mistress. Read full review
50
SalonCharles Taylor
It's in no way a stupid movie. The trouble is that there's only so much emotional energy you can expend on these assholes before you start wondering why you're paying attention to them at all. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
The film's "never grow up" refrain plays like a broken record, until, in an abrupt (but not unexpected) turnaround at film's end, it fixes itself. Read full review
30
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
The director knows how to apply textural gloss, but his portrait of sex-as-war is strictly sitcom. Read full review
30
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Through it all, Muccino piles on one shrill confrontation after another. At times, he seems headed for the melodramatic turf owned and operated by Pedro Almodóvar, but where the young Almodóvar would have deployed a prankish wit and the older Almodóvar scraped toward the humanity beneath. Read full review
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