88
A film that celebrates simple human kindness. If the ending feels somewhat unsatisfying, it is perhaps because one hates to see this too-brief film end at all.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
70
The New York Times by Dana Stevens
Though Last Resort dwells on sorrowful circumstances and illuminates a grim corner of contemporary reality, it is far from depressing.
70
Washington Post by Desson Thomson
Compelling, if sometimes grittily depressing, viewing.
80
It's a sweet and wise film - neither groundbreaking nor revolutionary save for the fact that it places narrative and character arc at the center of its concerns.
80
Dallas Observer by Gregory Weinkauf
His (Pawlikowski) love story, which is by turns sensuous, charming, and uniquely moving.
70
Pawlikowski, whose background is in documentary film, has an eye for the menacingly forlorn and elegantly bleak. Last Resort, which was shot without a script and developed largely in collaboration with the actors, is a kind of verité fantasy.
80
Chicago Reader by Lisa Alspector
A hopeless romantic meets a hapless realist in this gritty, elegant drama brimming with spontaneous-seeming close-ups.
80
New York Magazine (Vulture) by Peter Rainer
Unsatisfying at a very high level. It fritters away more than most movies ever offer up.
75
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
I like the way Last Resort ends, how it concludes its emotional journey without pretending the underlying story is over. You walk out of the theater curiously touched.
75
San Francisco Chronicle by Wesley Morris
A must-see.