The Last Thing He Wanted lacks enough substance to become enjoyable. Tensions are never properly set up and characters don't even seem to be living in the world that is created.

| Original Score: D | Aug 1, 2024

It’s built like a thriller and paced liked one too. But it lacks the narrative cohesion needed to bring its many moving parts together. So you’re left with an ambitious movie that looks the part but is maddening in its inability to make sense.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 23, 2022

Rees should have pulled the plug on the whole thing...Instead the film drowns on its own.

| Sep 16, 2020

Despite an all-star cast of respectable and often captivating actors, The Last Thing He Wanted ultimately falls apart due to its convoluted storytelling and slavish devotion to its source material.

| May 4, 2020

The sense of tension and the stakes remain high from frame to frame; it's just what connects them that's often absent.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 20, 2020

Dee Rees's Joan Didion adaptation The Last Thing He Wanted very nearly works thanks to Anne Hathaway, but the film's narrative shortcomings crater it.

| Mar 25, 2020

A movie whose main thing is that it's not interesting in any way.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 25, 2020

The viewer is lost in the middle of a plot in which the director and co-writer want to give few clues. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 16, 2020

A convoluted and incoherent political thriller meant to get lost in Netflix's vast catalogue. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 6, 2020

Not even Anne Hathaway can save this one.

| Mar 6, 2020

[Anne Hathaway] never becomes an interesting character... Willem Dafoe can't save the disaster either. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 3, 2020

The Last Thing has the pizzazz and the cinematic bravado necessary for a taut political thriller, but the film falls flat from the outset.

| Mar 3, 2020

Nothing works properly and with genuine conviction in The Last Thing He Wanted. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Mar 2, 2020

The Last Thing He Wanted is a political thriller so incoherent, disjointed, convoluted, and boring that its very existence proves to be perplexing.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Mar 2, 2020

Messy book-based political thriller has mature content.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 28, 2020

The Last Thing He Wanted might not be the thriller you're looking for, but stay for Anne Hathaway and Rosie Perez, at least.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 27, 2020

With its strong performances, pacing and imagery, The Last Thing He Wanted is one (fairly hefty) script revision away from theoretical year-best territory. Instead it missteps, with increasing frailty.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 26, 2020

What's most frustrating about the film's incoherence is that there are still good sequences amid the chaos.

| Feb 24, 2020

Begins in a state of near-total incoherence and somehow meanders further from there, plunging into almost experimental territory with its choppily edited mess of ridiculous dialogue and hyper-dense plotting.

| Feb 24, 2020

This film is both heavy on cryptic discourse while lacking any coherent order.

| Feb 24, 2020