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When she helps her father broker an arms deal, a reporter becomes involved in the story she's trying to break.
  • Genre:
    crime, mystery and thriller, drama
  • Original Language:
    English
  • Director:
    Dee Rees
  • Release Date (Theaters):
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    Elevated Films

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Anne Hathaway
Elena McMahon
Ben Affleck
Treat Morrison
Willem Dafoe
Richard McMahon
Dee Rees
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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…

    Roxana Hadadi

    Pajiba

  • What's most frustrating about the film's incoherence is that there are still good sequences amid the chaos.

    February 24, 2020 | Full Review…

    Karen Han

    Polygon

  • 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…

    Stephanie Zacharek

    TIME Magazine

  • 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…

    Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

    AV Club

  • 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…

    Peter Travers

    Rolling Stone

  • 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…

    Danny Leigh

    Financial Times
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