Regretfully, the charm of "At Long Last Love" is too little in a too - long and tedious framework.

| Apr 24, 2025

It may have been Bogdanovich's intention to produce something with the lightness and whimsicality of Minnelli, but the end results looks peculiarly as if a very Altman-esque conceit had been buried within a William Wyler epic.

| Mar 25, 2025

Cybill Shepherd... and Burt Reynolds... can neither dance nor sing; between them they manage to reduce most of the Cole Porter songs to a repetitious blur.

| Mar 25, 2025

It all comes down to Mr. B's weary script (just filler between endless musical numbers) and tired direction.

| Mar 25, 2025

It is an amusing enough remembrance of Hollywood things past, conjured up of an almost ingenuous spirit that, happily, has nothing to do with either nostalgia or camp.

| Mar 25, 2025

What most disturbs me about At Long Last Love is not so much the clumsiness of its leading lady as the superciliousness the director displays towards the genre.

| Mar 25, 2025

Bogdanovich's book has most of the silliness of the real thing but none of the sparkle and verve.

| Mar 25, 2025

The cast... do not deliver the songs with the naughty wit necessary to Porter, nor can they create much excitement out of a vapid plot.

| Mar 25, 2025

This movie is truly, truly bad. But more than that, it is an insult to great music.

| Mar 25, 2025

Twenty Cole Porter songs, some stunning sets and a lot of delightful romantic comedy make this Peter Bogdanovich film an escapist's delight.

| Mar 25, 2025

Porter's music is, as always, considerable fun, and it is well-integrated into the film, but the project simply lacks cleverness, brightness, gaiety and all those other things that Porter's music usually brings to mind.

| Mar 25, 2025

The production has class and Laszlo Kovacs' photography does well by it. But nothing else works.

| Mar 25, 2025

There is no wit, no joy, no effervescence, no spark -- in short, no fun.

| Mar 25, 2025

Cole Porter's timeless charms will doubtless survive "At Long Last Love" and Bogdanovich's treatment of them, which is roughly equivalent to hitting a butterfly with a sledgehammer.

| Mar 25, 2025

Its charm comes from the fact that its gun-ho cast is essentially non-musical but dead earnest, sincere and sometimes affectingly awkward (and human) in its execution of the material.

| Mar 25, 2025

Burt Reynolds and Cybill Shepherd... extend their limited talents, and all to the strains of Cole Porter.

| Mar 25, 2025

The truth is that Cole has been reduced to an ember. The tunes are shabbily treated and sound like Muzak.

| Mar 25, 2025

There is only a half-hearted attempt to recapture the brittle elegance of the '30s, and no attempt at all to recreate the dazzling production numbers of those wonderful early musicals.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 25, 2025

Simple everything about this holocaust is hopeless. The script is horrendously sophomoric, the plot is so thin it would evaporate before I got it out of the typewriter.

| Mar 25, 2025

Bogdanovich's sure eye for the beloved banalities of old Hollywood is what makes "At Long Last Love" hang together so well.

| Mar 25, 2025