It may at times come across a bit heavy-handed, but its message is still a timely and valuable one, showing a microcosm driven to total collapse by a planet that’s ready to kick humans out of the ecosystem for good.

| Sep 14, 2022

Shot on location in Iceland and unfortunately hobbled by a bit of third act CGI that compromises the rather compelling ecological message.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 20, 2020

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

It's a pro-environmental apocalyptic shocker that works as a thinking man's ghost story pic.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 3, 2010

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2008

An eco-supernatural dreamscape companion piece to Al Gore's cautionary doc, An Incovenient Truth, and a thinking man's figurative and literal sub-Arctic chiller with a turbulent character-driven indie soul.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2008

As such terror is harder and harder to articulate, the film is most effective when it abandons dialogue and leaves the camera to do its very spooky work.

| Oct 19, 2007

Last Winter does make good on its intriguing premise. And after a dandy beginning and a so-so middle, it delivers a knockout ending.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 19, 2007

Fessenden, who directed, produced, cowrote, edited and even has a part in the film rightly values mood at least as much as he does delivering more abominable snow monsters.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 12, 2007

The problem is that the ghostly culprit, some sort of nature spirit, isn't nearly as terrifying as the arguments that Pollack makes, or the fact that the ice in such places really is weakening.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 12, 2007

Die-hard greenies may find this as unsettling as it's meant to be. For everyone else, it's closer to an atmospheric act of recycling.

| Original Score: B | Oct 10, 2007

The film isn't very interesting because it isn't well made.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 28, 2007

The Last Winter's heart is in the right place, but it isn't pumping any blood.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Sep 28, 2007

It works eerily well.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 28, 2007

Sure, global warming is scary, but chances are even Al Gore would be baffled by Larry Fessenden's moody, Arctic-set 'eco-thriller.'

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 28, 2007

This message hangs over the entire film... but Fessenden still manages to craft an intense and effective thriller.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 27, 2007

Come for the eerie unworldly menace, but stay for the well-balanced currents of terror that manages to sustain itself throughout the film.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 26, 2007

It's the imaginative background, and Fessenden's talent at insinuating it into the action, that counts -- and unnerves -- in this most chilling of global-warming movies.

| Sep 25, 2007

A well done low budget indie production that lets the viewers' imagination picture how bad it gets when mother earth is finally pushed past the breaking point

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 23, 2007

A horror movie about the consequences of global warming. Set in the Alaskan Wildlife Natural Reserve, the oil company is far scarier than the monsters that attack the movie's main characters.

| Sep 23, 2007