The Last Tycoon 1976

Vincent Canby, New York Times: The movie is full of echoes. We watch it as if at a far remove from what's happening, but that too is appropriate: Fitzgerald was writing history as it happened. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Elia Kazan now admits that he directed this adaptation, his last Hollywood film, for the money. Unfortunately, it looks it. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: De Niro proves again how well he can carry a part, and is particularly good in scenes dealing with the day-to-day business of movie-making. Read more

Variety: Producer Sam Spiegel's contribution is admirable, but Elia Kazan's direction of the Pinter plot seems unfocussed though craftsmanlike. Robert De Niro's performance as the inscrutable boy-wonder of films is mildly intriguing. Read more