The Last Picture Show (1971)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:33
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.6/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 28 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Director Peter Bogdanovich (MASK, PAPER MOON) brings Larry McMurtry's bittersweet novel of life in a small, sleepy Texas town in the early 1950s to the big screen. This coming-of-age tale, shot in... [More]
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Cloris Leachman, Ben Johnson
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Reviews for The Last Picture Show
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Bogdanovich’s perfect recreation of the sense of time and place, and his ability to mix wit with poignancy that make this such a charming, timeless film. Full Review |
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A poignant evocation of small-town life in fifties Texas. Full Review |
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Superb performances all round add to the charm of this fine, if now unfashionable film. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
a world where the parental figures are never the real parents and almost everyone in plain view is still in some way a kid, regardless of the number of years they've lived. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Em seu momento mais sólido como diretor (numa carreira que se auto-destruiria pouco depois), Bogdanovich cria um monumento à melancolia.
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Director Peter Bogdanovich has seen Anarene, Texas, in the cinematic terms of 1951 -- the langorous dissolves, the strong chiaroscuro, the dialogue that starts with bickering and ends at confessional. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
The Last Picture Show is competent movie-making and probably deserves an audience. But its predictability and its calculation mar it for me. The values seem to me to be more contrived humanity instead of the real thing. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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Notre Dame professor Edward Fischer has said that 'the best films, like the best books, tell how it is to be human under certain circumstances'. Larry McMurtry did a beautiful job of this. Full Review |
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It's all fairly calculated, though Bogdanovich knows how to cast actors and highlight character turns. Full Review |
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This brilliant film depicts the gradual decay and death of community life (what sociologist Toennis called Gemmeinshaft), lamenting the loss of intimacy and relationships, as a result of TV and other forces that forever changed American life. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Moving, understated, beautifully filmed story with memorable acting by all.
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4/5 |
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A lot of films bill themselves as 'Classics', but here's one that actually deserves the title. As entertaining today as it was in 1971. Full Review |
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4/4 |
The film is above all an evocation of mood. It is about a town with no reason to exist, and people with no reason to live there. The only hope is in transgression. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Sad, haunthing and completely unforgettable. The most authentic depiction of small town life I've even seen put on the screen.
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3/5 |
Stylish, but overrated.
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