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Last Time, The
Sony Pictures Entertainment

Last Time, The reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 38 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
1.0 out of 10
based on 9 reviews
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MPAA RATING: R for pervasive language and sexual content

Starring Michael Keaton, Amber Valletta, Brendan Fraser, Neal McDonough, and Michael Lerner

A salesman (Keaton) rediscovers a lust for life after falling for the fiancée of his new business partner (Fraser), a Midwest transplant finding his footing in New York City. (Sony Pictures Entertainment)


GENRE(S): Comedy  |  Drama  |  Romance  
WRITTEN BY: Michael Caleo  
DIRECTED BY: Michael Caleo  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: July 10, 2007 
Theatrical: May 18, 2007 
RUNNING TIME: 96 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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63
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
The result is a little bit nutty and pretty entertaining in a thoroughly unconvincing way. And watch out for that 11th-hour twist -- it's a head snapper.
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50
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
The Last Time feels like a script that was written backwards, as if the twist ending occurred to Caleo first and he then filled out a story to get to it. Fair enough, except getting there in this case is just no fun.
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50
The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
While Michael Keaton and Brendan Fraser turn in a pair of sturdy performances, the film itself proves to be a harder sell, especially because it looks and sounds like Mamet but proves to be a flimsy knockoff.
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50
Variety Robert Koehler
Although this "Sopranos" writing vet delivers several flashes of that show's dark humor and irony, the pic leaves a hollow feeling at the end.
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40
LA Weekly Tim Grierson
The Last Time seems even more hapless than the Midwestern rube it's skewering.
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40
Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust
The movie unravels pretty quickly as Caleo almost immediately gives away the "what" but remains marginally entertaining as he manages to maintain some suspense in the "why" and the "how" before blowing the genre completely by going soft in the resolution.
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40
The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis
A Michael Keaton outing is always cause for celebration, no matter how ramshackle the vehicle ("First Daughter," anyone?) or paper-thin the role.
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30
Village Voice Aaron Hillis
Beyond his technical clumsiness, Caleo seems convinced that real men exert power by being A-type jerks and all women are sluts. If nothing else, this film serves as a troubling psychological profile of a filmmaker who feels scornfully cynical toward nothing in particular.
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25
New York Post Lou Lumenick
Despite solid contributions by vets such as Michael Lerner and Daniel Stern, Caleo isn't able to sell The Last Time - not the affair and especially not the ludicrous twist ending.
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