The Last Thing He Wanted
2020, Crime/Mystery and thriller, 1h 55m
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Elena McMahon
Treat Morrison
Richard McMahon
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Dee Rees's Joan Didion adaptation The Last Thing He Wanted very nearly works thanks to Anne Hathaway, but the film's narrative shortcomings crater it.
March 25, 2020 | Full Review… -
What's most frustrating about the film's incoherence is that there are still good sequences amid the chaos.
February 24, 2020 | Full Review… -
The Last Thing He Wanted seems so taken with its own intricacy that it manages only to trip itself up.
February 21, 2020 | Full Review… -
What makes The Last Thing He Wanted ultimately so frustrating (while also elevating it a few notches above its awfulness as a thriller) is the fact that there are things it does quite well.
February 21, 2020 | Rating: C- | Full Review… -
How does a director as stellar as Dee Rees go so thunderously wrong adapting a 1996 novel by the great Joan Didion, with a cast headed by Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck, and Willem Dafoe? Here's Exhibit A and the last thing any of us wanted.
February 19, 2020 | Rating: 0.5/5 | Full Review… -
On the page, the reader is transfixed by Didion's spare, sorrowful language. On screen, Hathaway's hard work can't stop the plot twist feeling silly.
February 19, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
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