The Last Family
New Europe Film Sales | Release Date: January 26, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
69
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
1
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
The New York TimesGlenn KennyJan 25, 2018
The tragedies in this family’s life are nearly constant, but Mr. Matuszynski approaches them with a tone that’s matter-of-fact while also partaking in the particular wry irony that has been a hallmark of Polish cinema since the early 1960s. Read full review
80
Screen DailyDan FainaruJan 25, 2018
Authenticity rules the day here, the contrast between the banality of daily existence and extreme conduct is the main point of the picture, all of it defined by an insistence on staying close to the actual events and refraining from any attempt at psychological observations or analytical motivations. Read full review
80
VarietyJay WeissbergJan 25, 2018
The film is a remarkable, frequently unsettling exercise in staged voyeurism, recreating the interdependent lives of the three members of the troubled Beksiński family. Read full review
80
The GuardianLeslie FelperinJan 25, 2018
Thanks to inventive camerawork, mesmeric performances and incisive yet elliptical editing and storytelling, the claustrophobia becomes a feature instead of a liability. Read full review
70
Village VoiceDanny KingJan 26, 2018
The movie sticks in the mind not as a full-on, time-honored biopic but as a queasily warts-and-all peeling back of a family dynamic that happened to involve a figure of cultish renown. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungJan 25, 2018
Like Seweryn, Konieczna is a performer with considerable experience on the Polish stage and she fulfils the same function in the film as Zofia does in the family — holding everything together with an admirably unfussy stoicism. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineClayton DillardJan 25, 2018
The film tends to literalize its theme of unfulfilled desire by having characters explicitly lament their lost pasts. Read full review
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