The Last Movie Star

    The Last Movie Star
    2018

    Synopsis

    An aging screen icon gets lured into accepting an award at a rinky-dink film festival in Nashville, Tenn., sending him on a hilarious fish-out-of-water adventure and an unexpectedly poignant journey into his past.

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    Cast

    • Burt ReynoldsVic Edwards
    • Ariel WinterLil McDougal
    • Chevy ChaseSonny
    • Clark DukeDoug McDougal
    • Ellar ColtraneShane McAvoy
    • Nikki BlonskyFaith Cole
    • Kathleen NolanClaudia
    • Juston StreetBjorn
    • Al-Jaleel KnoxStuart Muckler
    • Will Buie Jr.8 Yr Old Vic (uncredited)

    Recommendations

    • 75

      RogerEbert.com

      As a commentary on Reynolds' career trajectory, The Last Movie Star is hit-or-miss. What is undeniable, though, is the space Rifkin has created where Reynolds can do what Reynolds does best, and if you're a fan (as I am) there's much here to treasure.
    • 60

      Los Angeles Times

      Thanks to its star's all-in commitment, the overtly maudlin film works better than it should, particularly sequences in which octogenarian Reynolds is dropped into "Smokey and the Bandit" and "Deliverance" and converses philosophically with his younger self.
    • 50

      Variety

      Despite a few good moments, this well-intentioned seriocomedy mostly wobbles between crude yocks, lame generation-gap humor and sentimental cliche.
    • 50

      Slant Magazine

      The film is a collection of old-fogey clichés, with a narrative that mixes a career retrospective with a road trip.
    • 50

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      The (elderly) Burt Reynolds vehicle The Last Movie Star strikes a note of banality in its first sequence from which it rarely deviates.
    • 50

      Rolling Stone

      An opportunity missed.
    • 41

      Paste Magazine

      Dog Years’ lack of faith in its audience makes its over-explanation and hackneyed groaners unshakable weights on a story that only needed to let Reynolds do his thing.
    • 40

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Whatever pathos is generated comes from Reynolds' commitment to all the self-exploitation. His inimitable charm is still there beneath all the corporeal decrepitude on which Rifkin and company shamelessly linger.