It’s the essence of New Hollywood filmmaking, which broke down our myths and revealed in their place a world of everyday losers who looked so much like ourselves that we couldn’t turn away.

| Aug 15, 2024

This picture sounds realistically profane and has a dark, grainy surface, and by Hollywood standards, it's strong, adult material, but the mechanism is a vise for our emotions -- the mechanism is schlock.

| Sep 21, 2023

“The Last Detail” is a sometimes funny, sometimes bittersweet drama that features believable characters and situations.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 28, 2023

Neither melancholy nor glitzy enough to warrant the similar cult following of several other Ashby titles, it's a beautiful portrait of barely contained despair trapped in the escapist values of a road trip going nowhere.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 9, 2020

There is a film in all this; Ashby and his cohorts, however, have not found it. Their movie is too schematic in its rote ups and downs, too predictable in its calculated alternation of drama and farce, and too whorish in its playing to the gallery.

| Jul 25, 2020

Those who believed, after Harold and Maude, that the editor-turned-director was one of the bright hopes for the future of the cinema, will find nothing to alter that opinion here.

| Dec 17, 2019

Add immaculate casting, a noteworthy debut for cinematographer Michael Chapman, and a spare and subtle score by Johnny Mandel, and you're left with a gem of a film.

| Oct 2, 2019

The Last Detail has the supreme merit of being discreetly simple and having a serene and consistent tone. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jul 22, 2019

Tough, jocose, salty and touching.

| Jul 10, 2019

One of the great, unheralded masterpieces of the 1970's, subtly defining the decade with a wry, knowing smile.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 4, 2019

Nicholson is all moustache and bluster. It's a larger-than-life role that grows smaller and sadder as the movie wears on, gradually revealing the limitations of Buddusky's bravado and the fears that churn beneath it.

| Apr 19, 2019

Meadows' 1st beer(s), 1st joint, 1st sexual experience, 1st attempt at assertiveness... represent not just a concentrated and expedited coming-of-age narrative, but also an elegy for a nation's broader loss of innocence in its military excursions.

| Feb 27, 2017

Jack Nicholson in one of his defining performances during a decade packed with 'em.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 30, 2016

Nicholson's cigar-chomping, profanity-spouting grunt is one of the greatest incarnations of stunted machismo onscreen, and he's brilliantly complemented by Quaid's picture-perfect awkwardness and Young's bracing cynicism.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 3, 2013

The film has an engagingly profane, scruffy looseness, a hallmark of Hal Ashby and Robert Towne's careers, that undermines the conventions of the narrative.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 2, 2013

Hal Ashby's gritty and profane serio comedy is one of his best films, featuring a towering performance from Jack Nicholson.

| Original Score: A | Jan 13, 2011

The interaction, dialogue, and parent/child-esque relationships are very well done, if somewhat repetitive.

| Original Score: 65/100 | Oct 1, 2010

O trio principal, beneficiado pela abordagem quase documental de Ashby, ajuda a construir um filme que conquista pela dinmica dos personagens e sua camaradagem crescente em um mundo de autoritarismo e injustias.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 17, 2010

A classic Jack performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 18, 2008

A tough-talking, sparely directed effort by Hal Ashby, with an immaculate performance by Jack Nicholson.

| Oct 31, 2007