Last Night Reviews
Last Night suggests that we're all just meandering through life without really addressing annihilation anxiety...
| Jan 30, 2023
McKellar occasionally drifts into sentimentality, but his able cast and strange vision of a community struggling to come to terms with its limitations prove deeply affecting.
| May 24, 2022
A gem of a small Canadian film...
| Mar 6, 2020
stunning apocalyptic drama
Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 26, 2005
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 3, 2005
The humor does not negate the scenario's anguished heart, brought to wrenching life primarily by the extraordinary Oh.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 3, 2005
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 17, 2004
Required viewing for anyone who hasn't yet planned her own last night.
Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 18, 2004
The film has a kind of airless, artificial quality that made it seem much longer than it actually was.
| Original Score: C | Apr 30, 2004
For all its wry humor, it concludes as a heart-piercing affirmation of life and love in the face of death.
Full Review | Feb 21, 2004
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 12, 2004
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2003
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2003
While it lacks the tension and panic of a similar film, Miracle Mile, [it] boasts a cast of intriguing characters in an equally intriguing (though unlikely) scenario.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 19, 2003
It's the End of The World as We Know It, and this crafty Canadian film chronicles the end times in smart, snappy fashion.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 7, 2002
McKellar is a good storyteller, and he demonstrates a clever -- albeit dark -- sense of humor. But much of it goes for naught because of the movie's sterile patina.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 6, 2002
Last Night succeeds where so many other films have failed because it concentrates on the element that its predecessors have ignored: the human factor.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 18, 2002
Last Night employs an intriguing 'what if' scenario and mines a few authentic moments, but is hampered by the narrow imagination of its young creator.
| Aug 17, 2002
What begins as a serious attempt to question the materiality of existence and an individual's lack of control within a larger world spirals into a rather cloying romanticism.
| Aug 16, 2002
Last Night is the work of a good playwright, not a screenwriter.
| Jul 21, 2002