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

| Jun 21, 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

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

This dusty, polite film is hamstrung by an excess of overproduced period realism, although designer Luciana Arrighi’s reconstruction of Freud’s cluttered sanctum is something indeed, each object a clue or a contradiction.

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

So, no, not a car chase or explosion in sight, though the title Bad Boys: Ride or Die would fittingly describe a film that is, despite the unprepossessing précis, often thrilling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 12, 2024

It manages to make loaded, interesting subjects such as sex an inducement to a nap.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 26, 2024

Anthony Hopkins is at his sarcastic best in Freud’s Last Session. His barbs are delivered in a mild tone and there’s an amused look in his eye, but these sweeteners do nothing to blunt his disdain.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 25, 2024

It does have Goode, which helps, and of course Hopkins, who makes the film worth the price of admission, if just barely.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 19, 2024

The real accomplishments of either are far preferred to the details of this fantasy get-together.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 18, 2024

It’s a relatively bloodless tit-for-tat conversation that shoots sparks that rarely catch fire.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 18, 2024

Brown does what he can to keep things from feeling like a filmed play, but he can’t do much, and what he does do — flashbacks, dream sequences, a war scene, and a trip to an air raid shelter — isn’t always helpful.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 17, 2024

Just when you think you know everything Hopkins can do, he digs down and comes up with something new.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 10, 2024

What could be a timely and revelatory film about reconciling one’s own demons becomes a disjointed narrative that snaps you out of each emotional moment.

| Jan 9, 2024

The elements never quite cohere in “Freud’s Last Session.” The rhythm of conversation feels choppy and lacks the probing give and take that can electrify a two-hander.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 4, 2024

It is perhaps more accurate to say that the two men put each other on the couch, ultimately trying to peer inside each other’s crania, poking and probing without really provoking any actual insight, in a film that looks as drab and gray as it sounds.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 3, 2024

Tiresome digressions mixed in with philosophical banalities add up to a pointless, inert drama.

| Dec 29, 2023