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The Last Thing He Wanted

2020

Dee Rees

Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck, Willem Dafoe, Rosie Pérez ...

3.7

1,325

Thriller. Drama A veteran D.C. journalist (Anne Hathaway) loses the thread of her own narrative when a guilt-propelled errand for her father (Willem Dafoe) thrusts her from byline to unwitting subject in the very story she’s trying to break.

	Author	Review
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"A gifted director misfires (...) [It] is confusing in both large and small ways — and it's rarely the kind of confusion that fuels some of the great intrepid-reporter adventures."	NEG
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"A rather damp disappointment (...) It is an inarguable misfire, wrong or at least ill-advised decisions made at almost every turn (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Tomris Laffly Variety	"[It] has style and commendable ambitions, but gets suffocated by a busy structure and over-plotted script."	NEG
United States	Kate Erbland IndieWire	"An incoherent offering that is done no favors by its unforgiving material and even less by an array of miscast stars and baffling narrative choices."	NEG
United States	Angie Han Mashable	"[It] boasts big ideas that never quite gel (...) But that's not what makes it such a frustrating watch. The bigger issue is that every single scene feels like it's been taken out of context"	NEG
United States	Matt Goldberg Collider	"A failure on every level (...) an exploitative narrative that doesn’t know where its priorities are, and a complete inability to even establish the basic stakes of the story."	NEG

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