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Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Van Sant's refusal to delve into his subject in anything but an abstract way renders the movie pointless and frustrating -- a lyrical, lovely tone poem, signifying little. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: The story, told with little dialogue or action, feels like an outline awaiting shading and detail. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Van Sant uses Cobain's image for a portrait of physical and moral disintegration, but he also exhilarates us with his mastery of image and sound. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Seamlessly and rather cleverly, without telling anybody, Gus Van Sant has transitioned out of important filmmaking and has taken up a new career in torture. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: The problem is the first twenty-seven years of this character's life are probably a lot more interesting than the last three days. Read more
Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Shot in long, single takes, the movie willfully tests your patience. You wish it would hurry up. Yet when it ends, it haunts you for a few days. (Well, me anyway.) Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: If you're going to make a movie about Kurt Cobain, you might as well make a movie about Kurt Cobain. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Last Days is director Gus Van Sant's meditation on the death of Kurt Cobain, and an extraordinary meditation it is. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: Lyrical and unaccountably mesmerizing. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: A film about a junkie rock musician, played by Michael Pitt at his most narcissistic, doing nothing in particular for the better part of 97 minutes isn't my idea of either a good time or a serious endeavor. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Watching paint dry would be better. At least the paint would be busy drying. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: In putting the onus for meaning on viewers, Van Sant has pinned the film's success to our subjectivity. It might not guarantee fondness. Yet what an extraordinary collaboration it makes. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: There is a method to its madness, since the madness here is really Cobain's. Read more
Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: This movie, depending on what you do with it, can be boring, brilliant or both. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Van Sant's startlingly beautiful and original film serves precisely to rescue Cobain from the clutches of the mawkish biopic that, sooner or later, will be made about him. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: For those in tune with its director's loping rhythms, Last Days probes its way under the skin like a needle in search of a vein. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: After an hour and a half of this, you may feel as if you're on drugs yourself. Or wish you were. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: Weird, sad and dreamy. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: Mesmerizing dream of a film. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Last Days is a definitive record of death by gradual drug exhaustion. After the chills and thrills of Sid & Nancy and The Doors, here is a movie that sees how addicts usually die, not with a bang but a whimper. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Sometimes we see Blake through the window, but, as he moves around the room, often we see nothing but the far wall. Depending on your perspective, this is either incredibly gutsy or incredibly boring. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Gus Van Sant ventures into the valley of death steering by an idiosyncratic compass and forsaking the aid of a conventional cinematic map. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Last Days offers some insight into Cobain's final frame of mind, but balks at the gates of deeper truth. Read more
Leslie Felperin, Variety: Within the limitations of the role, Pitt acquits himself very well as Blake, giving a nervy, physical performance that expresses character mostly through gait, mumbled dialogue and, most importantly, music with two songs he's credited with having written. Read more
Robert Christgau, Village Voice: Pitt also isn't required to replicate Cobain's offstage intensity or charisma or charm or whatever he had. Read more
Dennis Lim, Village Voice: In place of psychological clarity, Last Days affords a woozy existential coherence. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: It's definitely not a conventional biopic about Kurt Cobain. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Last Days leaves a haunting impression of a man who, even at the height of his fame and adulation, was hiding in plain sight. Read more