The Last Kiss 2006

Critics score:
45 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: ... when it comes to exploring our peculiar blindness as to what's important in our lives, the film is a disturbing but accurate road map. Read more

Jessica Reaves, Chicago Tribune: ... a smart, witty, sexy take on the perils of becoming an adult. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: ... The Last Kiss takes a serious look at what's too often described glibly as early midlife crisis, and it shows some courage in not tying up its stories neatly at the end. Read more

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Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: What probably seemed natural and even amusing in the original comes off here like Barry Levinson's Diner done wrong. Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: The Last Kiss bears the unmistakable Haggis touch, one as subtle and understated as an electric chainsaw through the spinal cord. Read more

Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: An old tale, to be sure, but The Last Kiss doesn't feel tired. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: As with Garden State and Elizabethtown, The Last Kiss is an iPod playlist in search of a movie, and what it loses in honest drama it will surely make up for in sales of the CD. Read more

Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: ... feels terminally generic and tone-deaf. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: ... Paul Haggis has turned the Italian romantic comedy L'Ultimo Bacio (2001) into something smarter, funnier, and more penetrating. Read more

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Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: For all the hurting and hollering, The Last Kiss rarely pushes its emotions from scripted to authentic. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: ... The Last Kiss is a simple movie, but it should spark a great many conversations between couples leading to potentially dangerous territory. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: An alarming male wallow passing as a fetching date-night dramedy in which four men entering their fourth decade respond with lunkheaded awfulness to the mysteries of women, each in his own lunkish way. Read more

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: ... improves on the original in just about every way, thanks to just about everybody involved, starting with director Tony Goldwyn, and a cast headed by Zach Braff and the ubiquitous Jacinda Barrett Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: The Last Kiss is a good movie. Read more

Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: The Last Kiss isn't terrible, but if you're strapped for a night out, it can easily wait till DVD. Better yet, it may be time to revisit Diner. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: What happens in The Last Kiss may be a pitfall of translation: A European movie in which unhappiness reigns usually employs enough sense of the absurd to make it all palatable. Here, it's just unremittingly sad. Read more

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: The Last Kiss is interminably bleak. It doesn't win laughs or offer catharsis. The film only lowers your spirits and never seems to end. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: ... paints itself into a corner from which it cannot escape. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: [Braff] and the women of The Last Kiss give it weight, heart and smarts. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: This is one of those movies where you're willing to overlook the flaws in order to appreciate what's worth lauding. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Danner will surely win an Oscar if enough people see this film, but the real point is that her stormy, erratic gender-bender Lear performance elevates The Last Kiss above a well-made genre drama. Read more

Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: There's nothing formulaic in this story of four buddies on the cusp of 30 torn between settling down and opening themselves up to more adventures ... Read more

Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: If you're going to take viewers down a familiar path, you'd better make sure the trip is led by intriguing characters. Give the makers of this comedy-drama credit for that. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times: ... an intelligent and often very entertaining picture that deals with so many aspects of human relationships. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: ... credible resolutions aren't [Haggis'] strongest suit. Read more

Susan Walker, Toronto Star: It's easy to see from the above that The Last Kiss is a movie scripted from a male point of view to capture that elusive young male demographic. Read more

Trevor Johnston, Time Out: Relatively compelling at the time, it's just a bit too glib to resonate for much longer afterwards. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: ... the movie occasionally reveals truths about relationships that, while not earth-shattering, are nonetheless entertaining and worth considering. Read more

Lisa Nesselson, Variety: Situational humor is structurally sound, and yet the aggregate result of all this Sturm und Drang is more distancing than involving. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: ... what makes The Last Kiss especially satisfying is its vision of love as the soul of partnership -- rather than the crack high known as romance -- and something worth fighting for. Read more