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91A surreal, elegantly melancholy, and yet witty ensemble story.
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81Easily the best millennial movie, Don McKellar's Last Night is also the only one to use the idea of apocalyptic end-time as a vehicle to explore the absurdity of human desire.
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75As the final hour approaches for the characters in Last Night, there are moments of startling poignancy.
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75A gifted cast and a surprisingly delicate ending are the movie's best assets.
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75A slight movie, and in the end you wish it said a little more, but it is also a startlingly honest production. When it's all over, you can't imagine it being any other way.
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75Though the film is dark and the ideas run deep, it's perversely fun to think about.
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75A rare and welcome reminder of how original, provocative and moving a low-budget independent film can be.
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75Writer and first-time director Don McKellar, also one of the film's stars, makes the plot gimmick an inventive jumping-off point for an exploration of humanity in a state of quiet panic.
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75A shockingly eloquent, nearly moving feat of Y2K-trendiness.
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75Rather incredibly ends up being a kind of inspirational upper.
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70A witty, trenchant script, lots of complicated characters, and a few actors who turn human frailty into something nearly sublime.
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A mordantly funny and shrewdly understated millennial fantasy.
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70An end-of-the-world movie like no other.
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67In contemplating whether the world will end with a bang or a whimper, it reveals a little something of the human condition as we enter a new age.
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60Strangely uplifting, a kind of ode to how on Earth we think we're passing the time.
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60An engaging preapocalyptic fantasy.
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60A smart and somber little film with some decent performances and a few sharp observations about function and futility, but I can't help wishing that the picture, like it's characters, had not gone quite so gentle into that good night.
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60Softening that apocalyptic undercurrent is a counter-strain of quiet nobility.
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50There are poignant moments in this apocalyptic "what if" exercise.
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50If the current flood of pre-millennial tension movies teaches us nothing else, it demonstrates how desperate we've all become to see whether we could make our peace in the time provided, if forced to by circumstances beyond our control.
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50There's an ample sense of foreboding in Last Night -- but sadly, very little else.
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50The narrative emphasizes coincidences, but they're nicely understated. If it didn't seem gimmicky and self-indulgent...the movie might be more affecting.
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40The actors share much of the screen time but the viewer never quite gets the chance to relate to each one individually.
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Keir9I love this movie. It's brilliant, very Canadian, with an amazing cast and a uniquely sedate take on apocalypse.
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CraigB.10