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Last Resort
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80 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 21 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 21
  3. Negative: 0 out of 21
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  1. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Chris Kaltenbach
    100
    Thanks to the wonderful performances from both Korzun and Considine, there isn't a forced or dishonest moment on-screen.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    90
    This is the best class of poetic realism, the kind you can believe in without a trace of hesitation.
  3. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Joe Morgenstern
    90
    A huge delight.
  4. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    89
    Maddin's movie is, frame for frame, the densest and most spectacular (albeit cardboard-cheap) film playing anywhere.
  5. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Loren King
    88
    A film that celebrates simple human kindness. If the ending feels somewhat unsatisfying, it is perhaps because one hates to see this too-brief film end at all.
  6. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    83
    Moving and eerily beautiful.
  7. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    80
    Sweet, melancholy comedy; it's ineffable charm lies entirely in the delivery.
  8. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    80
    Unsatisfying at a very high level. It fritters away more than most movies ever offer up.
  9. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    80
    The movie's a beauty.
  10. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Gregory Weinkauf
    80
    His (Pawlikowski) love story, which is by turns sensuous, charming, and uniquely moving.
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  11. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    80
    It's a sweet and wise film - neither groundbreaking nor revolutionary save for the fact that it places narrative and character arc at the center of its concerns.
  12. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    80
    A hopeless romantic meets a hapless realist in this gritty, elegant drama brimming with spontaneous-seeming close-ups.
  13. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    I like the way Last Resort ends, how it concludes its emotional journey without pretending the underlying story is over. You walk out of the theater curiously touched.
  14. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    75
    A slice of life in the most profound sense.
  15. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    75
    A little gem.
  16. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Steven Rea
    75
    Quiet, finely etched and beautifully acted by Dina Korzun and the wise-beyond-his-years Artiom Strelnikov.
  17. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    75
    A must-see.
  18. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    75
    The new movie year's poignant love story to beat.
  19. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: J. Hoberman
    70
    Pawlikowski, whose background is in documentary film, has an eye for the menacingly forlorn and elegantly bleak. Last Resort, which was shot without a script and developed largely in collaboration with the actors, is a kind of verité fantasy.
  20. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    70
    Though Last Resort dwells on sorrowful circumstances and illuminates a grim corner of contemporary reality, it is far from depressing.
  21. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    70
    Compelling, if sometimes grittily depressing, viewing.
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