I liked it, I didn't love it.

| Mar 10, 2025

Coppola’s direction has improved little since her equally vapid 2020 Mainstream.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 6, 2025

Here and there, Coppola even risks Shelly seeming — shock horror — unsympathetic. We are trusted to be smart enough to handle it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 6, 2025

More of this would have given this showbusiness fable some welcome bite; as it is, it’s an absorbing but disappointingly tasteful watch.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 4, 2025

Without the narrative scaffolding or depth to surround her character, Coppola’s film can often feel like a message in search of a movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 3, 2025

It’s initially tempting to dismiss the picture, like its central character with her breathy, little-girl voice, as superficial. But there’s a bruising cumulative power to this melancholy little paean to an ending era.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 3, 2025

Finds endless variation on the city at magic hour – the gigawatts of neon just becoming visible as the horizon reddens. The characters sad in mufti. The nothingness of desert just visible through the haze.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 28, 2025

A curiously cautious example of the comeback machine at work, barely getting under the sequins, let alone the skin, of a bittersweet price-of-glamour story

| Feb 28, 2025

The director shows great empathy for the pull of self-romanticisation, even when it wounds the dreamer.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2025

We’re never allowed to sit with any of the characters, which makes them feel underexplored. Elegiac as it is, the film doesn’t offer deep insights. Anderson, however, is transfixing.

| Feb 27, 2025

Not quite a showstopper, but this reflection on womanhood boasts noteworthy performances across the board, especially from Pamela Anderson and a surprisingly tender Dave Bautista.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 26, 2025

Warm and generous performances carry this good-natured movie from director Gia Coppola; it’s actually the sort of approachable, actor-led drama for grownups that pundits complain Hollywood doesn’t produce any more.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 26, 2025

Anderson’s performance is genuinely moving, but without narrative scaffolding, the film starts to fall apart.

| Feb 22, 2025

All up, the scene-setting is terrific. Las Vegas, too, is shown without its make-up – sunstruck and weathered, with a dull suburban fringe – but after we get the picture, the script doesn’t have anywhere much to go.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 19, 2025

As a relative newcomer to the big screen at 57, it feels poignant that Anderson plays a character the same age who is facing up to the end of a 30-year long career.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 19, 2025

The Last Showgirl wouldn’t be as half-interesting without audiences bringing to it their regard of Pamela Anderson.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 19, 2025

Jamie Lee Curtis is excellent in her tough cookie, cynical mode.

| Jan 17, 2025

Is it possible to love a film you don’t really like? That’s how I feel about The Last Showgirl. Great story, amazing cast (hopefully the Pamela Anderson renaissance has only just begun), but lackluster direction.

| Jan 16, 2025

Clocking in at a brisk 85 minutes -- it was shot in just 18 days -- this is the rare film that might have benefitted from a longer runtime to tell a more complete story.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 16, 2025

It’s impossible not to be enchanted by Anderson’s compassionate turn, and her tender work makes it all the more heartbreaking to watch Shelly refuse to go quietly into the night.

| Jan 14, 2025