The New Yorker by David Denby

This production, directed by Michael Hoffman, is like a great night at the theatre--the two performing demons go at each other full tilt and produce scenes of Shakespearean affection, chagrin, and rage.

Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer

The Last Station isn’t all that it should be, but whenever these two actors are onscreen, it’s like a great night at the theater.

The Hollywood Reporter

Three superb performances by Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer and James McAvoy should have Oscar handicappers drooling.

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.

Chicago Reader by J.R. Jones

If you come to this expecting the philosophical depth and psychological detail of Tolstoy’s work you’re sure to be disappointed, but as an actors’ romp it’s delectable.

The Hollywood Reporter by Stephen Farber

Three superb performances by Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer and James McAvoy should have Oscar handicappers drooling.

Austin Chronicle by Kimberley Jones

The Last Station would have satisfied alone as a witty, manic lark, but as it moves toward the titular railway station, the film unfurls into so much more – a work of compassion, modulated mournfulness, and unchecked joy.

USA Today by Claudia Puig

Every second Helen Mirren is on-screen in The Last Station is a study in peerless talent.

Boston Globe by Ty Burr

The movie’s a chocolate box of nougaty performances, from Christopher Plummer’s delightful depiction of Tolstoy as a ribald old naïf to Paul Giamatti twirling his waxed mustache and playing to the gallery as Vladimir Chertkov.

Philadelphia Inquirer by Carrie Rickey

Set exactly a century ago, The Last Station is a droll tragicomedy starring those battling Tolstoys, whose family is unhappy in its own way.

New York Post by Lou Lumenick

Helen Mirren outdoes even her Oscar-winning performance in "The Queen" with her tour de force as Countess Sofya Tolstoy in Michael Hoffman's delightful The Last Station.

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

A grandly entertaining historical drama.

Variety by Todd McCarthy

Solid middlebrow biographical fare in which meaty roles are acted to the hilt by a cast more than ready for the feast.

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.

Village Voice

Tolstoy fought a love-hate war with his bipolar wife, Sonya, and thank God for that, since it allows Helen Mirren, basically playing a cross between Ibsen drama queen Hedda Gabler and the little squirrel from "A Doll's House," to waltz away with the movie.

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.

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.

Time Out

Working with uneven material, the illustrious cast is too often stranded in a realm of tony, high-art camp.