The script isn’t Thompson’s best.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 14, 2024

Though Last Christmas sticks to some of the genre's prior tropes, it outdoes the norm through a multitude of layers and credible performances that are genuine and scarce in the usual holiday films produced.

| Jul 10, 2024

A painfully stereotypical rom-com that fails to touch any chords.

| May 15, 2024

Boasting a fantastic cast, with two charming, compelling leads in Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding, Paul Feig delivers a lighthearted, festive film, but stuffed with cliches and a twist that doesn't quite work.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 24, 2023

I now finally have my own The Brown Bunny. I hated Last Christmas. The lazy, peculiar, and out of left field twist has no justification. It simply doesn’t work.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 20, 2022

The bad news is that Last Christmas doesn’t have much in the way of a story outside of that one lyric. It all adds up to an odd little film that kind of works and kind of doesn’t.

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 19, 2022

It'll become a Christmas tradition for you, and you'll get to tell folks you liked it before it was cool.

| Feb 11, 2022

[Last Christmas] works a little too hard to add substance to the genre.

| Sep 16, 2021

It's funny in an unchallenging way, moving because of its real-life context and comforting because you always know exactly what's coming next.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2021

Last Christmas gives you its heart, and you probably won't want to throw it away...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 29, 2021

…Paul Feig’s gift-wrapped product turned out to be rather less warm and fuzzy than the simple feel-good fare that might have been anticipated...(a) screaming festive nightmare…

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 14, 2021

Last Christmas is like most holiday movies - something that makes you feel good in the moment, but destined to be forgotten before the year is done. Even the hook of a George Michael soundtrack can't make it last.

| Feb 17, 2021

As the film progresses, you can feel the twist waiting to drop ... You just don't know which rom-com cliche it's going to be. Turns out, it's all of them, and when it's revealed, it is very hard not to imagine Nora Ephron turning in her grave.

| Jan 29, 2021

Last Christmas wanders around listlessly, unmoored from laughs, almost as if it's been made as revenge against anyone who's complained about [Feig's] penchant for improv-based indulgences.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 28, 2021

Part Curtis-style rom-com, part George Michael jukebox movie (note the title), part personal redemption tale and part mystery story... Put all this together and it's no surprise that the movie is something of a mess.

| Dec 29, 2020

Clarke's first big post-Game of Thrones move is heavy on inclusivity and morality lessons but loses no sense of humour in the process, dodging preachiness with ease.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2020

It's worth seeing with family and girlfriends and moms and besties because it's a smart happy movie you can laugh with without feeling dumber for it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 16, 2020

Last Christmas fortified my cynicism for more than an hour, then Clarke eroded it just enough to make me like it.

| Jul 13, 2020

Yeah it's predictable and a little formulaic, but Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding are such a whimsical duo - delivering on the laughs and the tears.

| Jul 12, 2020

For all its unoriginality there is something inherently likeable in this fondue mess.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 8, 2020