Click here to copy URL

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

2019

Joe Talbot

Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, Rob Morgan, Tichina Arnold ...

6.6

534

Drama Jimmie Fails has one hope in life: to reclaim the majestic Victorian house his grandfather built. Every week, Jimmie and his only friend, Montgomery, make a pilgrimage across San Francisco to Jimmie’s dream home and imagine what life would be like if this neighborhood had never changed. When they realize the house’s current owners have moved out, Jimmie decides to recreate the home his family once had. As he struggles to reconnect with ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A highly original and impressive feature debut (...) All the dramatic components have not only been well thought out (...) but they’re adorned, for the most part, by a sense of reality that keeps pretentiousness at bay"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Funny, heartfelt, and achingly bittersweet (...) It’s as much a requiem for the things we lose as it is a pointed reminder that nothing is really ours to keep (...) [A] movie that will be hard to forget."	POS
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	[Talbot] delivers a funny, poignant, rage-filled valentine to the city they love (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"[It] crafts a lovely space in which to spend two hours, but lacks the kind of dramatic motor that might compel folks to invest in a man who spends his days skateboarding"	NEU
United States	Odie Henderson rogerebert.com	"It’s a tribute to the notion of home that we all carry. This is one of the year’s best films (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Stephanie Zacharek Time	"[An] odd and wonderful debut film"	POS
United Kingdom	Anthony Kaufman Screendaily	"This ambitious debut features flashes of imaginative visuals, quirky dialogue, and well-meaning messages (...) The film resembles the dream-like vision of early Spike Lee"	POS
United States	Carlos Aguilar The Wrap	"Striking compositions (...) highlight the emblematic architecture of San Francisco (...) The delicate quality of the lighting choices and hues (...) that dominate the film add an evocative timelessness to the entire affair"	POS
United States	Inkoo Kang Slate	"This magnificent debut often feels like something utterly new (...) I was initially left unmoved by the film’s emotional circumspection and elliptical conclusion but found myself in great admiration of it after a few days’ thought."	POS
United States	Gregory Ellwood The Playlist	"The film team is so strong and the direction so fine that it’s simply hard to believe this is actually Talbot’s first full-length feature film (...) [It has] a lot to say about family"	POS
United Kingdom	Clarisse Loughrey The Independent	"It’s a poetic work and an impressive debut (...) [The] cinematography is rich and picturesque (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"It’s sensationally well-shot (...) The offbeat characterisation prods away intelligently at the way black guys get stereotyped on screen (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"Impressive visuals, strong performances and earnest intentions wrestle with an overly precious tone (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Lewis Knight Mirror	"[It] is a visually stunning, rapturous, and highly personal examination of class, race, and gentrification in a modern urban landscape and is one of the year's best pieces of cinema (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Donald Clarke Irish Times	"The first hour is a wonder of dreamy poetry (...) There is, in short, nothing much like 'The Last Black Man in San Francisco' out there. It should be treasured (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Chris Wasser Irish Independent	"One of the most beautiful and original films of 2019 (...) Brilliantly written, scored, acted, photographed and edited (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Alan Corr RTÉ	"Almost unbelievably this is director Joe Talbot's first feature and it's a stylised and visually stunning study in psychogeography with a surreal sense of dislocation and sadness (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Deirdre Molumby entertainment.ie	"A touching story of friendship and poignant reflection on what it means to find home (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS

Return to movie

We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.