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The Last Face's noble intentions are nowhere near enough to carry a fundamentally misguided story that arguably demeans the demographic it wants to defend.
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"The Last Face" is the worst kind of good-intentioned noble failure, one that muddles its message because it tries too hard to tell it. Nov 17, 2017 | Full Review…
"The Last Face" is the worst kind of good-intentioned noble failure, one that muddles its message because it tries too hard to tell it.
Gary M. Kramer
Rarely has a movie felt so simultaneously inane, stultifying and offensive. Jul 28, 2017 | Full Review…
Rarely has a movie felt so simultaneously inane, stultifying and offensive.
Claudia Puig
Sean Penn turns African strife into a two-hour perfume commercial with The Last Face, veering between gauzy impressionism and shrieky melodrama with his latest directorial effort. Jul 28, 2017 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
Sean Penn turns African strife into a two-hour perfume commercial with The Last Face, veering between gauzy impressionism and shrieky melodrama with his latest directorial effort.
Christy Lemire
As well meaning as this movie is, it is also a turgid, muddled one. Jul 27, 2017 | Full Review…
As well meaning as this movie is, it is also a turgid, muddled one.
Glenn Kenny
Characters are undeveloped, dialogue is platitudinous and insincere, and even the leading roles are one-dimensional. Jul 27, 2017 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
Characters are undeveloped, dialogue is platitudinous and insincere, and even the leading roles are one-dimensional.
Rex Reed
The Last Face spends so much time on the on-again, off-again romance between Bardem's Miguel and Theron's Wren, the African victims are all but nameless and faceless backdrops. Jul 27, 2017 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
The Last Face spends so much time on the on-again, off-again romance between Bardem's Miguel and Theron's Wren, the African victims are all but nameless and faceless backdrops.
Richard Roeper
A cringe-inducing, self-serving mess. There's a good film in the subject matter somewhere, but Sean Penn is absolutely not the person to find it. Avoid. Apr 3, 2019 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
A cringe-inducing, self-serving mess. There's a good film in the subject matter somewhere, but Sean Penn is absolutely not the person to find it. Avoid.
Nick Evan-Cook
[A] tortuous misstep for director Sean Penn Oct 5, 2017 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…
[A] tortuous misstep for director Sean Penn
Simon Foster
A proselytizing, pretentious bore. Aug 25, 2017 | Rating: 2.5/10 | Full Review…
A proselytizing, pretentious bore.
Zach Hollwedel
Penn's pompous indulgence is gruesome and gravely disappointing. Aug 14, 2017 | Rating: 3/10 | Full Review…
Penn's pompous indulgence is gruesome and gravely disappointing.
Susan Granger
This romantic war drama -- Sean Penn's fifth feature film as director -- is an all-around dud. It's poorly shot and edited, crushingly heavy-handed, woefully misguided, and, to top it off, miserably long. Jul 28, 2017 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
This romantic war drama -- Sean Penn's fifth feature film as director -- is an all-around dud. It's poorly shot and edited, crushingly heavy-handed, woefully misguided, and, to top it off, miserably long.
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Oscar-winning actors can't save this movie, which muddles through a dismayingly impressionistic first half-hour, before settling into a standard star-crossed romance. Jul 28, 2017 | Full Review…
Oscar-winning actors can't save this movie, which muddles through a dismayingly impressionistic first half-hour, before settling into a standard star-crossed romance.
André Hereford
The jumps in time prevent us from getting closer to its characters, and it is easy to understand why so many people hated this film when we see a cheesy love story between a white couple made more important than what there is to say about the horrors that happen in Africa.
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