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

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

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

It's an inherently fascinating and wild true story, [but] I just thought this was occasionally dull.

| Nov 21, 2020

It's an interesting subject for a movie, [but] I'm not sure it quite comes to life.

| Nov 21, 2020

[There] is a compelling framework for this story, but it's done in such strange, large strokes.

| Nov 21, 2020

The handsome period thriller would have benefitted from a zippier pace, and Bang is stiff and square. But Pearce's complicated, flamboyant historical figure is total best actor Oscar bait.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 20, 2020

It's a clever gesture, but also points out what's ultimately wrong with director Dan Friedkin's postwar thriller: It knows a lot about art history and presumes we know nothing.

| Nov 20, 2020

The film takes some significant, unnecessary, and distracting dramatic license.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 20, 2020

Sadly, The Last Vermeer doesn't have time to tackle this question with the depth it demands.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 20, 2020

The film moves from detective story to courtroom drama with nicely sketched character studies as a bonus...

| Nov 19, 2020

Pearce is captivating as van Meegeren, with his permanently surprised eyebrows that resemble Dalí's mustache and his freewheeling life that included a fair amount of sex and drugs.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2020

[R]est soundly knowing that The Last Vermeer is a pale impersonation of a movie.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 18, 2020

"Vermeer" chews on some decent food for thought: most notably the idea of moral ambiguity and the compromises one sometimes makes in wartime to survive.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 18, 2020

Dreadfully milquetoast

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 17, 2020

All the lavish sets and gorgeous costumes in the world - and they are here - can't quite cover over the cracks in Friedkin's canvas, constructed by three writers from a non-fiction book.

| Sep 6, 2019

This once notorious, now nearly forgotten story easily captures and holds our interest, and Friedkin's smooth and unostentatious direction never gets in the way of the material.

| Sep 1, 2019

An uneven but enjoyable historical drama with a standout turn from Guy Pearce.

| Sep 1, 2019