The Last Shot Critic Reviews

The film doesn't always work, but it captures the buzz of moviemaking, and that's infectious.Read the full review

Not a well-oiled enterprise but more of a series of laughs separated by waits for more laughs. It has a kind of earnest, eager quality, and it's so screwy you feel affection for it.Read the full review

It's deftly done with an off-the-wall sense of humor joined to a real insider's sense of how the business operates. Read the full review

Despite its generic title and flat ending, tickles most of the way through. Read the full review

Teetering on an abyss of meta-wackiness, The Last Shot -- a movie about movie fakery, based on a true story about a fake movie -- succeeds modestly where, by all rights, it should fail miserably.Read the full review

Any movie that would think Calista Flockhart to be the sort of high-strung basket case who'd hurl obscenities down at a dog kennel outside her apartment is worth sitting through.Read the full review

Given an irresistible premise, Nathanson doesn't trust his material enough to follow through without excessive mugging, but his sense of the absurd leads to amusing digressions along the way. Read the full review

Contains most of the elements of a "Get Shorty"-type romp without the character depth and wit. Read the full review

An often funny if slight satire that's never as edgy as it thinks it is or as sharply focused as it needs to be.Read the full review