Last Night Reviews

stunning apocalyptic drama

| Original Score: 5/5

The humor does not negate the scenario's anguished heart, brought to wrenching life primarily by the extraordinary Oh.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Required viewing for anyone who hasn't yet planned her own last night.

| Original Score: 5/5

The film has a kind of airless, artificial quality that made it seem much longer than it actually was.

Full Review | Original Score: C

For all its wry humor, it concludes as a heart-piercing affirmation of life and love in the face of death.

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While it lacks the tension and panic of a similar film, Miracle Mile, [it] boasts a cast of intriguing characters in an equally intriguing (though unlikely) scenario.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

It's the End of The World as We Know It, and this crafty Canadian film chronicles the end times in smart, snappy fashion.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

McKellar is a good storyteller, and he demonstrates a clever -- albeit dark -- sense of humor. But much of it goes for naught because of the movie's sterile patina.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Last Night succeeds where so many other films have failed because it concentrates on the element that its predecessors have ignored: the human factor.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Last Night employs an intriguing 'what if' scenario and mines a few authentic moments, but is hampered by the narrow imagination of its young creator.

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What begins as a serious attempt to question the materiality of existence and an individual's lack of control within a larger world spirals into a rather cloying romanticism.

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Last Night is the work of a good playwright, not a screenwriter.

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One of the few genuinely original films at the 1998 Cannes Festival.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

By far the best thing about Last Night is its conclusion.

Full Review | Original Score: B

There are moments of transcendant truth and beauty, surrounded by a film that isn't sure what it wants to do or where to go.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

McKellar's only mistake was to craft the niggling central role of Patrick, and then play it himself.

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An engaging apocalyptic romance.

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The final countdown - when people are doing the things that most define them, in their infinite variety, as human beings - is exhilarating yet packed with significance.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Could have been unbearably ponderous, but Canadian actor/director Don McKellar injects wry humor in place of angst.

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...a no-frills but convincing execution of the end of the world.

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