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

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

| 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

It's a low-key rest-stop story that appreciates life's banalities and the struggles of ordinary people.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 24, 2020

So far, so good in the mismatched maybe-eventual-buddy-comedy department. But the movie... wants a deeper dimension.

| Sep 24, 2020

The Last Shift is not nearly as challenging a production, both for Jenkins and audiences, but it is highly watchable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2020

You think you know in which mutual lesson-learning direction this is headed. And for a time you're right, but, for better and worse, only for a time.

| Original Score: B | Feb 13, 2020

Richard Jenkins gives one of his most soulful performances in years.

| Feb 4, 2020

The film never gets to the root of their issues or the reasons for their disconnection.

| Feb 3, 2020

In such a knowing film about how thoroughly Americans are trained to undervalue themselves and each other, it's hard to fault "The Last Shift" for doing the bare minimum.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 3, 2020

"The Last Shift" is premiering in an election year where every candidate's campaign is focused on reaching men like Stan, who have the sense life shouldn't be this hard, but misdirect their blame.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 31, 2020

This funny-sad chamber piece is underwhelming in cinematic terms, but its perceptive script and the incisively etched characterizations of a sterling ensemble make it warmly satisfying.

| Jan 29, 2020