The Last Vermeer wastes good actors and an intriguing true story on a poor narrative structure.

| Aug 17, 2022

While it takes a while to some into focus, 'The Last Vermeer' can modestly boast a good Guy Pearce performance and a satisfyingly rousing courtroom climax.

| Sep 13, 2021

Like Vermeer's paintings, the movie's colorful premise gains depth by exploring the blacks, whites, and most importantly, grays of life.

| Jul 19, 2021

It will fascinate art lovers as well as 20th century history buffs.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 12, 2021

Pearce gives one of the best performances of his career, investing Van Meegeren with a quicksilver charm and the kind of confidence that can be acquired only through a lifetime of subterfuge.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 1, 2021

Sinks into a well-populated list of other dramas about art and the war far too easily and generically than a feature about this specific tale should.

| Mar 29, 2021

Based on a true story, but they take tremendous liberties there...a film full of grandstanding moments that are entirely made up, but I enjoyed it as that, rather than it trying to be anything else...

| Mar 11, 2021

A handsome, deliberately paced historical drama given life by a flamboyant performance from Guy Pearce.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 25, 2021

A bit too twisty for its own good.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 25, 2021

Everything original is buried under an inexplicable effort to make this story something that we have already seen. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 24, 2021

It is interesting to me when a filmmaker takes a subject which has been investigated many times and brings a new angle to it. Here director Dan Friedkin brings us a story, based on real events, of how World War II and art intermingled.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 24, 2021

Its examination of what makes a work of art worthy of everlasting praise and who gets to decide that it is proves to be tasty food for thought.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 14, 2021

Unfortunately, the film doesn't live up to its source material and gets sidetracked with its less interesting main character.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 1, 2021

The Last Vermeer is part art-history lesson, part post-war mystery, part family drama, and it all comes together in a fascinating way.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 28, 2020

Along with the cast and photography, though, [it is] just adornments that distract us, for a time, from the film's stale predictability.

| Dec 8, 2020

Guy Pearce takes his scenes with gusto.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2020

Friedkin and his screenwriting team... have trouble deciding whose movie this really is. ... Friedkin can't seem to choose, leaving a muddled mess between them.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 4, 2020

Post-WWII drama paints intriguing but mature picture.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 2, 2020

The underrated Guy Pierce is the highlight as the Dutch artist on trial for treason during WW2, a rich story vein in which another amazing based-on-true emerges. Viva Vermeer!

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 30, 2020

By far the most enjoyable aspect of the film is Pearce's overripe performances as van Meegeren, with an assist from Olivia Grant, acidly sensual as the painter's model/mistress.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 26, 2020