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The Last Movie Star

2017

Adam Rifkin

Burt Reynolds, Ariel Winter, Clark Duke, Ellar Coltrane ...

5.8

232

Drama An aging, former movie star is forced to face the reality that his glory days are behind him.

	Author	Review
United States	Keith Uhlich The Hollywood Reporter	"Whatever pathos is generated comes from Reynolds's commitment to all the self-exploitation. His inimitable charm is still there beneath all the corporeal decrepitude on which Rifkin and company shamelessly linger."	NEU
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"Despite a few good moments, this well-intentioned seriocomedy mostly wobbles between crude yocks, lame generation-gap humor and sentimental cliche."	NEU
United States	Chuck Bowen Slant	"'Dog Years' is a collection of old-fogey clichés, with a narrative that mixes a career retrospective with a road trip."	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"[A] fatally half-realized meta-drama (...) [A] tedious tribute that’s too generic to take advantage of its introspective lead performance."	NEG
United States	Alan Scherstuhl Village Voice	"The effect is unconvincing, the editing raggedy (...) At times the performance [Reynold's] is painful to watch (...) It never comes close to illuminating its character or Reynolds"	NEG
United States	Luke Y. Thompson Forbes	"A love letter to Reynolds that manages to adore him unsentimentally, understanding that revealing the flaws can result in a fuller, richer portrait than simply glamorizing a lead."	POS

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