“The Last Bus” is several things, but above all it’s a moving meditation on life, love, and the commitments we make to those closest to us. It’s also a beautiful reminder of the blessing of memories.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2022

Adding a modern social-media twist to the episodic odyssey only exacerbates the sappiness Spall cant entirely mitigate.

| Original Score: C | Apr 23, 2022

Spall does what he can -- but The Last Bus only sputters to life and credibility in a few flashback sequences.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 14, 2022

A typical English film. Meaning it features a rather small story, is filled with quirky moments, involves no action sequences, and strong acting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 10, 2022

Too straightforward to have gone anywhere not expected.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 4, 2022

This British drama has such a tender, heart-warming premise, that is incredibly difficult not to be moved by it. But director Gillies MacKinnon and writer Joe Ainsworth perhaps just need to remember that sometimes, less is more.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 3, 2022

Spall's performance aside, it's difficult not to wish that the movie hadn't been so intent on sending poor Tom on quite so sentimental a journey.

| Feb 23, 2022

Extolling the virtues of public transportation and reciprocal kindness toward seniors, this bittersweet British road-trip drama overcomes its earnest sentimentality thanks to Timothy Spalls powerfully understated performance.

| Feb 18, 2022

For a tender movie that follows an old man on a long and demanding multi-bus excursion to honor his late wife’s wishes, the placid affair has curiously little emotional range, and an even narrower sense of stakes.

| Feb 18, 2022

There's very little to this material, despite Spall's best efforts.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 18, 2022

To be sure, the film wanders and at ninety minutes, still feels a bit long. Be that as it may, Spall keeps you hooked throughout, the actor providing a quiet sense of dignity and determination that makes us admire and root for Tom.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Feb 17, 2022

A touching film that will remind all of us to embrace the ones we love as often as we can.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 17, 2022

Timothy Spall gives a career-defining performance as an elderly man making one last bus-hopping trip across the breadth of the U.K.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 16, 2022

Director Gillies MacKinnon's sensitivity toward the material becomes apparent from the start, but the inertia of the first third of the movie soon sputters and loses momentum.

| Feb 11, 2022

A gentle and bittersweet watch.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 2, 2021

Anchored by the gifted Timothy Spall, the film spins a wistful but emotionally resonant tale, infusing earthy wit into even some heart-stopping moments.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 2, 2021

I love public transport and I cry at the drop of a genuine 1950s trilby hat, but The Last Bus is simply too earnestly clunky. Spall is terrific though, and Tom's tragedies movingly revealed.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 31, 2021

You won't want to stick out your hand for this one.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2021

[A] plodding road-trip movie...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2021

The film's faith in human nature is noble, but its comforting effect would have been greater if the dialogue hadn't been so stiff.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2021