Metascore
77 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 6
  2. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. 100
    Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris is one of the great emotional experiences of our time.
  2. Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    100
    Shattering social and sexual conventions, Last Tango in Paris stands as one of Bernardo Bertolucci's finer achievements.
  3. Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris is a beautiful, courageous, foolish, romantic, and reckless film.
  4. 70
    The surface plausibility is probably the contribution of Marlon Brando, whose performance has strength and detail enough to counterbalance Bertolucci's taste for pure psychological essence.
  5. Reviewed by: Emma Cochrane
    60
    Interesting for it's historical notoriety, but overlong and dull in places.
  6. Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    50
    Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris is an uneven, convoluted, certainly dispute-provoking study of sexual passion in which Marlon Brando gives a truly remarkable performance.