Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris is one of the great emotional experiences of our time.
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TV Guide Magazine
TV Guide Magazine
Shattering social and sexual conventions, Last Tango in Paris stands as one of Bernardo Bertolucci's finer achievements.
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The New York TimesVincent Canby
The New York TimesVincent Canby
Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris is a beautiful, courageous, foolish, romantic, and reckless film.
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Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
The surface plausibility is probably the contribution of Marlon Brando, whose performance has strength and detail enough to counterbalance Bertolucci's taste for pure psychological essence.
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EmpireEmma Cochrane
EmpireEmma Cochrane
Interesting for it's historical notoriety, but overlong and dull in places.
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Variety
Variety
Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris is an uneven, convoluted, certainly dispute-provoking study of sexual passion in which Marlon Brando gives a truly remarkable performance.