The highly persuasive performances leave us with much to ponder, not least the suggestion that, for these two, as for America as a whole, mutual understanding will be a challenging process.

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

It sort of ambles along with no great imprint until a sharpish left turn as Cohn tries to transform his small-town drama into something far greater.

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

It gets the usual good performance from the character actor Richard Jenkins.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 28, 2021

A wonderfully performed, if somewhat downbeat, portrait of the underbelly of the American Dream. It examines issues of white privilege, racial bias and how, despite the best of intentions, sometimes things just don't work out.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 29, 2021

The writer and the elder try to open each other's eyes to reality, and their colliding minds add up to a thoroughly entertaining take on race, class, age, retirement, and morality.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2020

A small yet tender story

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 15, 2020

Retirement, Bigotry and an Americana blast from a time gone by are weaved into an unlikely buddy comedy with a brilliant performance from Richard Jenkins and untapped potential from Shane Paul McGhie in The Last Shift.

| Oct 11, 2020

Wonderful performances drive this story of an old greasy spoon worker training his young replacement, a film of few big 'moments' and many wondrous small observations.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 10, 2020

Despite some unexpected character choices and other small stumbles, this indie drama gets by on great performances, bittersweet humor, and many snapshots of heartbreaking truths.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2020

Director/screenwriter Andrew Cohn has a knack for showing how real people talk, and what they talk about. I really appreciate the dialogue in this dramedy.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 2, 2020

It slowly devolves into something that resembles a failed sitcom pilot, with plot threads that are never fully developed and one thread late in the film that is so out of place it completely changes the tone of everything that proceeded it.

| Original Score: C | Oct 2, 2020

Strong performances keep this modest two-handed drama from leaving a sour taste.

| Sep 26, 2020

Tells a story that feels real and lived in - something Hollywood often gets wrong.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 25, 2020

The Last Shift raises some intriguing questions that are ripe for exploration. Unfortunately, Cohn's film does not dive as deep as the topics warrant.

| Original Score: C | Sep 25, 2020

Cohn's film excels in quiet, observational moments.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 25, 2020

Trying to get a spark from a damp match is a lot harder than holding a flame to dry kindling.

| Sep 25, 2020

It would have been nice had the film given Jenkins a little more to work with, but the actor is more than up to the challenge.

| Original Score: 86/100 | Sep 25, 2020

Less a comedy than a curio of vexing stereotypes in the BLM era, director Andrew Cohn's film is saved by Richard Jenkins and little else.

| Sep 25, 2020

It's another tour de force performance from Jenkins, in the same week as his headturning performance as the pater familias of a clan of grifters in Kajillionaire.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 25, 2020

Just comes across like a flat and rather mundane attempt that never really goes anywhere.

| Sep 24, 2020