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22 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranIt's deftly done with an off-the-wall sense of humor joined to a real insider's sense of how the business operates.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyScott BrownEntertainment WeeklyScott BrownTeetering 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.
- 60The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasGiven 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.
- 50Chicago TribuneChicago TribuneFlockhart, as an actress desperate to show the world her talent but lethally unsure if she has any, embodies the obsessively driven personality it must take to make it, or to try to make it, in pictures. She's the personification of what The Last Shot could have been.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenThe Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenAn often funny if slight satire that's never as edgy as it thinks it is or as sharply focused as it needs to be.
- 50VarietyRobert KoehlerVarietyRobert KoehlerContains most of the elements of a "Get Shorty"-type romp without the character depth and wit.
- 40Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumUnfunny and instantly forgettable comedy.
- 30Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonThere are some very funny passing lines, but the movie's too uneven to enjoy.
- 25Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversNever achieves liftoff.
- 25Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaPhiladelphia InquirerSteven ReaCross "Get Shorty" with "State and Main" - Hollywood hustlers, colorful crooks, crafty poseurs, and a production crew on location - and you have the stuff of The Last Shot. One other thing: eliminate anything funny.