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Distinctive in terms of content, perspective, and insight, The Last Tree vividly depicts the turmoil of adolescence with remarkable grace.
All Critics (27) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (26) | Rotten (1)
The journey is familiar, but it's Amoo's artistic touches, often in wistful slow motion, that make the difference. Sep 28, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The journey is familiar, but it's Amoo's artistic touches, often in wistful slow motion, that make the difference.
Kevin Maher
[A] sombre, yet heartfelt and warmly acted drama... Sep 26, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
[A] sombre, yet heartfelt and warmly acted drama...
Peter Bradshaw
As with his debut feature 'A Moving Image', a spikily insightful look at gentrification in Brixton, Amoo is always looking to subvert lazy cultural assumptions. Sep 23, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
As with his debut feature 'A Moving Image', a spikily insightful look at gentrification in Brixton, Amoo is always looking to subvert lazy cultural assumptions.
Philip De Semlyen
An elliptical look at hard changes in a young man's life. Feb 11, 2019 | Full Review…
An elliptical look at hard changes in a young man's life.
John DeFore
Newcomer Sam Adewunmi captures Femi's anger but also his loneliness - a desperate longing to forge his own path, but also to fit in with his family and friends. Jan 27, 2019 | Full Review…
Newcomer Sam Adewunmi captures Femi's anger but also his loneliness - a desperate longing to forge his own path, but also to fit in with his family and friends.
Hannah Woodhead
Thoughtfully alternates universal adolescent insecurities with urgently specific minority politics - filtered through a first-person perspective that itself oscillates between furious clarity and vivid confusion. Jan 25, 2019 | Full Review…
Thoughtfully alternates universal adolescent insecurities with urgently specific minority politics - filtered through a first-person perspective that itself oscillates between furious clarity and vivid confusion.
Guy Lodge
Shola Amoo's movie has its share of TV-drama roughness - in, for instance, the shouting matches between Femi and his mother - but it's enriched by Amoo's expressionistic storytelling and by a trip Femi takes to Nigeria to explore his roots. Oct 2, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Shola Amoo's movie has its share of TV-drama roughness - in, for instance, the shouting matches between Femi and his mother - but it's enriched by Amoo's expressionistic storytelling and by a trip Femi takes to Nigeria to explore his roots.
Edward Porter
We can count on Adewunmi to reveal Femi's inner turmoil. It's a raw, emotionally resonant performance. Oct 1, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
We can count on Adewunmi to reveal Femi's inner turmoil. It's a raw, emotionally resonant performance.
Amon Warmann
The Last Tree is an advance on Amoo's gentrification film A Moving Image (2016) and announces him as an important British director - one whose work demands a multicultural audience. Oct 1, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The Last Tree is an advance on Amoo's gentrification film A Moving Image (2016) and announces him as an important British director - one whose work demands a multicultural audience.
Graham Fuller
Powerful performances, tactile visuals and an elegantly fluid score add to the impact of this impressively understated yet profoundly moving tale. Sep 29, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Powerful performances, tactile visuals and an elegantly fluid score add to the impact of this impressively understated yet profoundly moving tale.
Mark Kermode
The Last Tree isn't perfect, but it's an honest and insightful coming of age story that deserves to find an audience. Sep 26, 2019 | Full Review…
The Last Tree isn't perfect, but it's an honest and insightful coming of age story that deserves to find an audience.
Alistair Ryder
The work of a natural-born moviemaker. Sep 25, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
The work of a natural-born moviemaker.
Nigel Andrews
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