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Working with uneven material, the illustrious cast is too often stranded in a realm of tony, high-art camp.
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What are critics saying?
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The New York Times by A.O. Scott
The kind of movie that gives literature a bad name. Not because it undermines the dignity of a great writer and his work, but because it is so self-consciously eager to flaunt its own gravity and good taste.
88
Every second Helen Mirren is on-screen in The Last Station is a study in peerless talent.
60
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Though it feels at first like a musty edition of "Masterpiece Theatre," Michael Hoffman's adaptation of a novel by Jay Parini holds enough surprises to make a memorable impact.
90
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
For those who enjoy actors who can play it up without ever overplaying their hands, The Last Station is the destination of choice.
83
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
A grandly entertaining historical drama.
75
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
The film itself, energetically directed and written by Michael Hoffman, can't always rise to the level of its two dynamo stars.
80
Solid middlebrow biographical fare in which meaty roles are acted to the hilt by a cast more than ready for the feast.