A moving and powerful film, filled with quiet rage.

| Oct 13, 2020

Coming-of-age drama explores identity; violence, language.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2020

A compelling coming-of-age drama about a Nigerian immigrant in London.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 8, 2020

Rich with technical strategies that enhance our view into Femi's emotions, The Last Tree uses slow-motion, diffused sound, and many Spike Lee-like camera shots to make the story extremely personal and unique.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 16, 2020

What a beautiful movie... A very poetic but telling story.

| Jul 9, 2020

Adewumni ... conveys the hurt and the survival instinct in Femi with spare gestures and soulful eyes. It's a breakout portrayal.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 29, 2020

As "The Last Tree" ends with the potential of better things for Femi, an audience may walk away convinced of its filmmaker's promise and looking forward to seeing it blossom in full.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 29, 2020

A stunning portrait of a young African immigrant cast adrift in a ruthless British society, where even blacks reproduce racial discrimination.

| Jun 26, 2020

I can't help but be impressed by Amoo's attempts to direct a familiar narrative with such a complicated set of questions.

| Jun 25, 2020

Watch it because it is an honest tale, and Amoo's masterfully handling of it puts you directly into the shoes of Femi himself.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Jun 25, 2020

Culture shock, abandonment issues and inner-city turmoil produce a PTSD that is rarely acknowledged in film in this way. For that, The Last Tree is a triumph.

| Jun 24, 2020

Seek this movie out.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 24, 2020

An astonishingly beautiful coming-of-age story of startling specificity and intense intimacy, yet universal in its compassionate depiction of a child's perspective dawning on mature self-awareness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 24, 2020

A bold, nicely photographed look at two periods in the life of a young Nigerian-British man.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 24, 2020

Amoo and Adewunmi are talents to watch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 23, 2020

There are moments where Amoo's film could've benefitted from a little more precision, but none are enough to seriously detract from his vision.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 6, 2020

Shola Amoo's movie has its share of 온라인카지노추천-drama roughness - in, for instance, the shouting matches between Femi and his mother - but it's enriched by Amoo's expressionistic storytelling and by a trip Femi takes to Nigeria to explore his roots.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 2, 2019

We can count on Adewunmi to reveal Femi's inner turmoil. It's a raw, emotionally resonant performance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 1, 2019

The Last Tree is an advance on Amoo's gentrification film A Moving Image (2016) and announces him as an important British director - one whose work demands a multicultural audience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 1, 2019

Powerful performances, tactile visuals and an elegantly fluid score add to the impact of this impressively understated yet profoundly moving tale.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 29, 2019