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The Last Picture Show

1971

Peter Bogdanovich

Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson ...

7.8

9,105

Drama This coming-of-age tale set in the 50s focuses on best friends Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms) and Duane Jackson (Jeff Bridges) and their relationships. Duane is dating the beautiful but fickle Jacy Farrow (Cybill Shepherd), a good girl who is looking for a little excitement. Shy Sonny, meanwhile, is carrying on an illicit affair with a coach's wife, Ruth Popper (Cloris Leachman), a sad, plain woman whose only joy appears to be the ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Paul Zimmerman Newsweek	"A masterpiece"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The film has an unadorned honesty that came as a jolt after the pyrotechnics of the late 1960s (...) The film is above all an evocation of mood (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[It] is still a masterpiece whichever way you look at it (...) The soundtrack from Hank Williams and others is a joy. Unmissable (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"[Its stories] illuminate a good deal more of one segment of the American experience than any other American film in recent memory (...) It is filled with carefully researched details of time and place"	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"Bogdanovich's perfect recreation of the sense of time and place, and his ability to mix wit with poignancy make this such a charming, timeless film (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"Robert Surtees’s stylized cinematography (...) helps to clarify the subject matter. The film badly needs this stylization, because, of course, its shallow overview of town life is dangerously close to TV."	NEU
United States	Budd Wilkins Slant	"For the members of the New Hollywood, it was a briefly opened window on revitalized filmmaking and venturesome storytelling (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"[It] looks ever more crisply stunning and remote (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Anthony Quinn The Independent	"Its humility becomes extraordinarily affecting (...) [Bogdanovich] gives everything its proper weight"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"It's an intimate psychological story laced with references to Hollywood movies (...) It's all fairly calculated, though Bogdanovich knows how to cast actors and highlight character turns"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Radio Times	"This is a masterclass in how to create fully rounded characters and then give them real lives to lead (...) Jeff Bridges and Cybill Shepherd excel (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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