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100A true American tragedy, directed with skill and conviction.
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100Last Days is a definitive record of death by gradual drug exhaustion. After the chills and thrills of "Sid & Nancy" and "The Doors," here is a movie that sees how addicts usually die, not with a bang but a whimper. If the dead had it to do again, they might wish that, this time, they'd at least been conscious enough to realize what was happening.
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100The brilliant concluding chapter in the death trilogy that inspired Gus Van Sant's artistic rebirth.
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100One of this year's indisputably great films.
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90A hauntingly beautiful tone poem.
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90Despite all of Van Sant's narrative feints and coy protestations, the audience is left with one searing memory after seeing Last Days, and that memory is of Cobain. Was he, as Gordon's character suggests at one point, simply a rock-and-roll cliche? Or was he a visionary genius, as the name of Pitt's character implies?
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88The poetry of Last Days has a stoned grandeur.
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88In its unstated cynicism, beauty, and self-pity, Last Days fits the myth of Cobain like a torn pair of jeans.
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88The result is a movie that seems not quite real and yet never false but somehow partakes of both -- rather like the prospect of death.
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83It's an experimental film about a sensational event, placing tragedy in the context of the dulling normality of human life and resisting easy interpretation, just as did the inexplicable death of Kurt Cobain.
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AlexD0This must be the movie that drove Kurt Cobain to suicide.
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Nico10People who use the words chick, crap or dude (in any context) should be sent to a gas chamber. Thank you.
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