The Last Time 2006

Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: Strives for contemporary noir in tone but feels closer to an ineffective parody of James M. Cain filtered through faux David Mamet dialogue. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: While his cast is first-rate, director-writer Michael Caleo doesn't know quite what his movie is about. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Feels like a script that was written backwards, as if the twist ending occurred to [writer-director] Caleo first and he then filled out a story to get to it. Fair enough, except getting there in this case is just no fun. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: [Writer-director] Caleo isn't able to sell The Last Time -- not the affair and especially not the ludicrous twist ending. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: For all the good work that went into it, the movie is as phony as a game of three-card monte. Read more

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Aaron Hillis, Village Voice: Akin to hip-hop culture's misappropriation of Scarface as a tale of gangsta empowerment, writer-director Michael Caleo crudely latches onto the surface misanthropy of David Mamet's work to fuel his forgettable first feature. Read more