Only the most rabid chick-flick fan will fail to notice that it's the movie that's all wet.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 24, 2006

Crediting its audience with emotional intelligence, this rises well above your usual rom-com-dram.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 21, 2006

Relatively compelling at the time, it's just a bit too glib to resonate for much longer afterwards.

| Oct 19, 2006

This drama is a well-crafted and heartfelt look at commitment, infidelity and the end of youth.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 17, 2006

Danner will surely win an Oscar if enough people see this film, but the real point is that her stormy, erratic gender-bender Lear performance elevates The Last Kiss above a well-made genre drama.

Full Review | Oct 7, 2006

The Last Kiss bears the unmistakable Haggis touch, one as subtle and understated as an electric chainsaw through the spinal cord.

| Original Score: D- | Sep 23, 2006

Thanks to Haggis and the cast, who are convincing, often bitingly so, in their willingness to dive into the dark and unknowable depths of the modern American romantic relationship, The Last Kiss mirrors reality with remarkable faithfulness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 23, 2006

It is a highly perceptive drama with no good guys and no bad guys, instead choosing to fill its running time with real people facing real issues, all of them searching desperately for the best road leading to solace in their ever-complicated lives.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 15, 2006

... what makes The Last Kiss especially satisfying is its vision of love as the soul of partnership -- rather than the crack high known as romance -- and something worth fighting for.

| Sep 15, 2006

... the movie occasionally reveals truths about relationships that, while not earth-shattering, are nonetheless entertaining and worth considering.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 15, 2006

It's easy to see from the above that The Last Kiss is a movie scripted from a male point of view to capture that elusive young male demographic.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 15, 2006

... The Last Kiss takes a serious look at what's too often described glibly as early midlife crisis, and it shows some courage in not tying up its stories neatly at the end.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 15, 2006

There's nothing formulaic in this story of four buddies on the cusp of 30 torn between settling down and opening themselves up to more adventures ...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 15, 2006

... it would be nice to have some insight, and some artistry, along with the same old same old. The Last Kiss dispenses none of that.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 15, 2006

... a middling remake of a mediocre Italian comedy pandering to the chick-flick crowd ...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 15, 2006

... paints itself into a corner from which it cannot escape.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 15, 2006

... feels terminally generic and tone-deaf.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 15, 2006

... credible resolutions aren't [Haggis'] strongest suit.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 15, 2006

... The Last Kiss is a simple movie, but it should spark a great many conversations between couples leading to potentially dangerous territory.

| Original Score: B | Sep 15, 2006

... improves on the original in just about every way, thanks to just about everybody involved, starting with director Tony Goldwyn, and a cast headed by Zach Braff and the ubiquitous Jacinda Barrett

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 15, 2006