It just feel like a lifeless costume drama.
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12/14/09
The Last Station (2009)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:17
Rotten:8
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: Michael Hoffman's script doesn't quite live up to its famous subject, but this Tolstoy biopic benefits from a spellbinding tour de force performance by Helen Mirren.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Jan 15, 2010 Wide
Synopsis: Fact and fiction converge in this talent-driven drama based on Jay Parini's novel about Leo Tolstoy. THE LAST STATION focuses on the marriage between Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) and his wife... [More]
Starring: Helen Mirren, James McAvoy, Paul Giamatti, Christopher Plummer
Director: Michael Hoffman
Reviews for The Last Station
Top CriticIf you never read Tolstoy, this film guarantees you will not be tempted.
12/13/09
Sergei Yevtushenko's ("Russian Ark") score acts as the film's barometer - surprisingly playful well into the film, watch out when it becomes dramatically cliched...Mirren is a delight
12/13/09
Coping with the consequences of celebrity is the premise of this intriguing art-house melodrama that brings Russian history to life.
12/13/09
...Tolstoy seems half-monk and half-clown, a seeming contradiction translated with extraordinary clarity by Plummer.
12/10/09
The arrival of a movie with as much intelligence and artistry as The Last Station should also be accompanied by the sound of trumpets.
12/08/09
Top CriticIt’s the most emotionally naked work of Mirren’s movie career; she gives poetic form to the madness and the violence of commonplace jealousy.
12/07/09
Top CriticA glimpse into the last year in Tolstoy's life and a provocative depiction of the different shades of love in the lives of some creative people.
12/05/09
Though all the actors try to expand their underwritten roles, Mirren is most successful.
12/04/09
Top CriticThe kind of movie that gives literature a bad name. Not because it undermines the dignity of a great writer and his work, but because it is so self-consciously eager to flaunt its own gravity and good taste.
12/04/09
Top CriticMirren gives a forceful performance, showing the depths of Sofya’s feeling toward her husband as well as her fury as Chertkov and others come between them. (Mirren has called Sofya one of her “great roles.”)
12/04/09
The Last Station slides gracefully between comedy and pathos (it aims for tragedy, but doesn't quite get there).
12/04/09
Top CriticFor those who enjoy actors who can play it up without ever overplaying their hands, The Last Station is the destination of choice.
12/03/09
Top CriticHelen Mirren is a lusty, roaring wonder playing, of all things, the long-suffering wife of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer in peak form).
12/03/09
Top CriticEvery second Helen Mirren is on-screen in The Last Station is a study in peerless talent.
12/03/09
Top Critica difficult film to parse out and to appreciate.
12/03/09
Struggles to make these remote characters truly come alive and never quite locates an interesting window into the personal life of an artist
12/03/09
The message is clear, if you didn't get it from the rich acting: This is a film to celebrate nature and life.
12/02/09
Top CriticBased on the equally entertaining, erudite novel by Jay Parini and adapted and directed by Michael Hoffman, the movie is at once a hot marital showdown and a cool political debate, a domestic War and Peace.
12/02/09
Top CriticThis workmanlike adaptation of Jay Parini's novel about Tolstoy's last days, adapted and directed by Michael Hoffman, settles into a lushly scenic television drama, though with dialogue strangely located somewhere in the 1950s.
12/02/09
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