The Last Castle Critic Reviews

The kind of movie you can enjoy easily enough, as long as you don't think about it much.Read the full review

It could have been more, could have been a triumph and a classic, instead of simply an effective entertainment.Read the full review

Not as simple as it looks, though its appeal is simple: Robert Redford goes to prison, and James Gandolfini ("The Sopranos") is the warden. That's a movie worth seeing right there.Read the full review

A disappointingly pedestrian prison meller that falls between stools artistically and politically.Read the full review

This is, after all, not just Robert Redford. It's Redford in the nobly burnished self-mythologic perfection of his late-middle-aged golden god-ness.Read the full review

The movie is exuberant, strapping and obvious -- a problem drama suffering from a steroid overdose.Read the full review

They may call it The Last Castle, but moviegoers will ultimately feel rooked.Read the full review

Robert Redford does everything but wear a crown of thorns as the selfless war hero of The Last Castle, a heavy-handed military prison melodrama.Read the full review

It's not objectionable (which is saying something these days) but neither does it have any compelling reason to be seen.Read the full review