A meeting between Freud and CS Lewis should crackle with energy - but in Matthew Brown's film it merely fizzles.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 16, 2025

Smooth and enjoyable as a gorgeous piece of chamber music.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 29, 2024

Freud’s stubbornness at times feels clichéd, and the script’s meandering structure doesn’t benefit either of the two leads.

| Nov 22, 2024

What could have been an exquisite talk about existentialism ends up being a graphic description of these historical figures' past, focusing more on their life experiences than on the legacies left for posterity. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 6, 2024

In short, you’re watching two stuffy gentlemen bicker endlessly with each other for 100 minutes while saying or doing nothing that ultimately changes them by the end, which is not exactly prime big-screen entertainment as it may well be for the stage.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 5, 2024

Like much of Freud’s legacy, this film presents food for thought that isn’t always as fascinating or easy to digest as its idea’s originators anticipate.

| Original Score: B | Jul 23, 2024

However, Freud’s Last Session never seems to give us a reason to care about what’s happening, making it feel like a lifeless lecture.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 9, 2024

I’m a bit puzzled at who this film is for.

| Jul 4, 2024

Eighty-six-year-old Oscar winner and indelible hambone Anthony Hopkins will never retire, will he?... his latest addition to his vault of the talkative elderly.

| Original Score: 1/10 | Jul 2, 2024

Here, the only overdose that's been taken, it's an overdose of acting pills.

| Jun 21, 2024

Director Matthew Brown has made a terrific-looking film, with strong period detail and a witty script. And it's anchored by two riveting performances.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 20, 2024

There is no better screen show-off than Hopkins, who delivers another con brio in a mediocre film.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 17, 2024

Hopkins and Goode give excellent performances, but there’s a faintly pointless and schematic air to the proceedings.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2024

It’s not the fault of either star, but the half-baked script makes this an unsatisfyingly thin exploration of the weighty themes it seeks to cover.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 14, 2024

Hopkins and Goode give two understated yet im- pressively precise performances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 14, 2024

Instead, though, we get an engineered dead heat, less alive to the power of its ideas than their awards-baity provenance. For a few, that may be enough – but with apologies to Freud himself, sometimes a dud is just a dud.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 13, 2024

The result is a film that manages to be full of tenderness and clever repartee.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 13, 2024

Not a terribly profound movie, perhaps, but robustly performed and an interesting reminder of the dusty old debates on the point of being swept away by the great horror of the second world war.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 13, 2024

Hopkins is always fascinating, always makes it seem as though what he is saying has only just occurred to him, rather than being long dictated. That’s quite an achievement in this talky, stagey film.

| Jun 13, 2024

What if two of the greatest minds of the 20th century had the chance to thrash it out? Thrash it out they do but, alas, they cannot thrash any life into this film.

| Jun 13, 2024