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The Last Cruise

2021

Hannah Olson

Documentary

5.6

191

Documentary A terrifying origin story of the pandemic, DIAMOND PRINCESS chronicles the first and largest outbreak of the novel coronavirus outside China: the Diamond Princess cruise liner. Through never-before-seen footage from passengers and crew, we watch class divisions erupt as humanity misses its chance to contain Covid-19.

	Author	Review
United States	John Fink The Film Stage	"A vital and horrifying record of a crisis that we should have quickly learned from, that captures the moment with the immediacy of Facebook Live or Snapchat"	POS
United States	Robert Daniels rogerebert.com	"With visual precision and remarkable intimacy, Hannah Olson's documentary 'The Last Cruise' recalls the harrowing 40-day quarantine aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship at the outset of the pandemic (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Director Olson and her team have done an amazing job of weaving together the cell phone footage into a cohesive timeline of a stunning crisis in the nascent days of the pandemic (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	John Serba Decider	"'The Last Cruise' is gripping in the way it conveys the quiet horrors of a deadly viral outbreak"	POS
United States	Ashlie D. Stevens Salon	"The quality of [the] footage is often far from professional (...) [but] the result is more poignant than what could ever be captured through contemporary reenactments"	POS
United States	Morgan Hines USA Today	"[It] paints an intimate picture of what happened on Princess Cruises' Diamond Princess cruise ship (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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