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| Glass Half Full Media | Release Date: March 29, 2019 |
Starring:
AJ Cedeno, Ariel Eliaz, Cara Yeates, Elaine Bromka, Grace Woosley, Jagger Nelson, Jill Durso, Julie Fain Lawrence, Nimo Gandhi, Rebecca Schull, Reed Birney, Sami Bray
Summary:
The survivors of four generations of a Jewish family are rocked to their core when the family’s beloved 92-year-old matriarch makes a stunning confession.
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Mar 28, 2019
As the impossible Claire, the longtime character actor Rebecca Schull (a 90-year-old playing 92) is spectacular. Her character is lucid in her awfulness, and she almost never shuts up, relating endless anecdotes that don’t just force her family to face awful truths, but rub their noses in them.
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Mar 29, 2019
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Apr 25, 2019
Veteran performer Schull, perhaps best known as Fay on TV’s “Wings,” gives a towering, fearless turn; the other main actors are fine as well. Still, one must yield to the film’s flat shooting style, lengthy monologues, dangling questions and awkwardly rendered, dubiously earned ending.
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Mar 29, 2019
Compared with “Us,” also in theaters now, the movie feels benign, almost polite — which can’t possibly be what Lipsky had in mind. No, he seems determined to shock, but his films are like those proverbial trees, falling noisily in empty forests. That’s not to say Lipsky should stop making movies — one hopes The Last won’t be his last — but that it might be a good time to take a serious look at what he’s trying to achieve, if hardly anyone’s paying attention.
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Apr 8, 2019
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