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Last Kiss, The

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 27 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Romance
Written by: Gabriele Muccino (also story)
Directed by: Gabriele Muccino
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 2, 2002
DVD: November 11, 2003
Running Time: 117 minutes, Color
Origin: Italy
Language(s): Italian (with English subtitles)
Summary
RATING: R for language, sexuality and some drug use
Starring Stefano Accorsi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Stefania Sandrelli, Marco Cocci, Pierfrancesco Favino, Sabrina Impacciatore, Regina Orioli, and Giorgio Pasotti
Carlo's life is thrown into a tailspin when his longtime girlfriend Giulia announces she's pregnant.
Also On Metacritic
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Also On The Web: Internet Movie Database Official Italian Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
Stops your heart and keeps your belly jiggling with laughter. It's an improbably sunny tragicomedy.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker David Denby
An Altman-influenced movie made without the master's acrid bitterness. The Last Kiss may come out of Italian opera and comedy, but in spirit it's Shakespearean -- objective, impassive, and at peace with a world in which men and women manage to be both ordinary and extraordinary. [5 August 2002, p.80]
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
A crowd-pleaser in the deepest sense, mixes heartbreak and happiness together until you don't even want to see them apart.
Read Full Review >Variety David Rooney
Craftily combining elements that speak directly to three different generations, this accomplished ensemble piece is shaping up to be the surprise homegrown hit of the season.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jules Verdone
More movies should be so funny and perceptive, with writing this sharp and acting this believable.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
While Last Kiss may strike some as a calculated crowd-pleaser, it's cleverly calculated, perceptive and often quite funny -- and a bit darker than it may first appear.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
In the end, The Last Kiss holds less a cynical view of the matrimonial state than one of considered irony.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine Peter Rainer
It's a frisky, funny roundelay starring Stefania Sandrelli, and it features enough shouting and arm-waving to power a windmill.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Think "Sex and the City" with men, only in Italian and with lots more hollering and hand gestures.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Kim Morgan
You get to know each person just well enough to compare them, allowing you to judge as you like; the film, nicely, refrains from moralizing.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Both a witty ode to and a poignant lament for the choices we make.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dave Kehr
Provides more than enough sentimental catharsis for a satisfying evening at the multiplex.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
It's not Fellini, by any means, but it's lively. Never stops moving, even though it crashes into cliches along the way.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Dan Fienberg
The air of self-imposed misery can dampen the film's humor, but Muccino never stays still long enough for the emotions to become leaden, and the strong cast carries the film to its striking, bittersweet conclusion.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Its portrait of the many ways we can complicate our romantic lives may have a few serious moments, but it's intended to go down easy, and that's what it does.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
The vigorous, unsubtle acting provides consistent pleasure, once you stop expecting it to seem realistic.
Read Full Review >New York Post Megan Lehmann
Walking a tightrope between high farce and emotional truth, writer-director Gabriele Muccino's breathlessly paced Italian comedy The Last Kiss manages to stay just this side of melodrama.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Hank Sartin
Almost frantically intercutting between the characters, the movie spends so much energy trying to charm us that when the emotional stakes are raised we're too exhausted to care.
Read Full Review >New Times (L.A.) Gregory Weinkauf
It's the usual struggle of growing up and growing old, but Muccino's twists are plucky and revealing when he's not suffocating us with heavy-handed mortality and pathos.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Merle Bertrand
Makes a good chick flick for guys who want to appear artsy by taking their date to a foreign language film. Just remember: front row...and don't forget the aspirin.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Even the film's ironic ending is deftly handled, its cynicism is tempered by a certain rueful wisdom.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Charles Taylor
It's in no way a stupid movie. The trouble is that there's only so much emotional energy you can expend on these assholes before you start wondering why you're paying attention to them at all.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The message behind all of this is difficult to nail down. Mars and Venus? Adults who haven't grown up? The last fling syndrome? Doing what you want instead of doing what you must?
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Stephen Cole
Though credibly performed and photographed, it's hard to care about a film that proposes as epic tragedy the plight of a callow rich boy who is forced to choose between his beautiful, self-satisfied 22-year-old girlfriend and an equally beautiful, self-satisfied 18-year-old mistress.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
The film's "never grow up" refrain plays like a broken record, until, in an abrupt (but not unexpected) turnaround at film's end, it fixes itself.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michael Atkinson
The director knows how to apply textural gloss, but his portrait of sex-as-war is strictly sitcom.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
Through it all, Muccino piles on one shrill confrontation after another. At times, he seems headed for the melodramatic turf owned and operated by Pedro Almodóvar, but where the young Almodóvar would have deployed a prankish wit and the older Almodóvar scraped toward the humanity beneath.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.2 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Stefano C. gave it a 10:
GREAT MOVIE!!!!
Michael R. gave it an 8:
I liked this film. It was interesting to see male and female sexuality in crisis played out on the screen. This film shows many differing points of views without passing judgment. I just wish that there were less scenes of melodramatic acting. The stereotype of the hot-headed, angry Italian female feels a bit too cliched.
