As the latest addition to the growing subgenre of documentaries about home video’s tumultuous and exciting journey, The Last Blockbuster fleshes out one more chapter in the saga.

| Jul 28, 2023

The whole thing goes down easily enough, but substance is hard to come by.

| Jun 5, 2021

Could have included more diversity in its testimonials... [but] as an analysis of what really happened, is an exceptional story [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 27, 2021

You should watch it if you were ever taught that your kindness was inextricably tied to your rewindness.

| Original Score: B | May 21, 2021

Morden and Kamm have crafted a walk down memory lane that only tells you what the filmmakers think you want to hear. When faced with the prospect of saying something critical (and more insightful) about their subject, they'd rather say nothing at all.

| May 3, 2021

An excellent way to introduce those under-20 to what the video store experience was like.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 19, 2021

This is really several movies rolled into one, all of them engaging, but a bit longer than necessary.

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

The film focuses on the human side of the story; its protagonists, and not so much in the events in which they were involved. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 2, 2021

A slovenly documentary given over mostly to wistful reminiscences from random C-list comedians whose podcasts you're probably not listening to.

| Mar 25, 2021

More entertaining than educational, but just informative enough to do the trick...

| Mar 16, 2021

It tells a story that is at once a warm look back at a time when renting a video for the weekend was practically a rite of passage for a generation, and on the other hand a depressing account of sheer corporate greed and lousy decision making.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 18, 2021

A pity that this generally likable documentary...couldn't have been more imaginative in trying to justify its over-extended running-time.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 1, 2021

A flashier documentary may have stuck with the stuffy interviews from executives, but The Last Blockbuster is a movie made by fans as a love letter to their fellow video store stans.

| Dec 22, 2020

Too much nostalgia... They're getting all moan-y about this stuff, and it's a little too hard to take.

| Dec 22, 2020

It is so redundant, so repetitive, and so stretched out with various people saying the same thing over and over again. It relies very heavily on a lot of middle-aged white dudes to mansplain why going to rent a video was important.

| Dec 22, 2020

A massive feel good flick, and a truly happy surprise.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 21, 2020

The best movie rental store film of all time remains Michel Gondry's Be Kind, Rewind...but this is a worthy follow-up; a fond tribute to a place that never got the memo when the rest of the world hit the fast-forward button.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 19, 2020

If the phrase "Be kind, rewind" rings a nostalgic bell in your heart, this doc will likely qualify as an enjoyable diversion. But expect nothing more.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 18, 2020

The Last Blockbuster has the right idea but the wrong focus and the end result is a weird wallow in nostalgia for mediocrity.

| Dec 18, 2020

It's probably one of the best nostalgia documentaries to come out in years.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Dec 16, 2020