Synopsis
In New York, a struggling actress and a successful writer sing about their failed marriage from two perspectives.
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Cast
- Anna KendrickCathy Hiatt
- Jeremy JordanJamie Wellerstein
- Natalie KneppAlise Michaels
- Bettina BresnanHeather Greenblatt
- Marceline HugotLinda Whitfield
- Rafael SardinaRichard
- Allison MacriCarole Ann
- Alan SimpsonRyan James
- Nic NovickiKarl
- Tamara MintzDanica Schwartz
Recommendations
- 80
Village Voice
From moment to moment, this Last Five Years is a robust entertainment, often stirring, sad, and funny. - 75
New York Post
Let us now praise Anna Kendrick, who is positively great in the small-scale The Last Five Years — so utterly wonderful that this adaptation of an off-Broadway musical deserves better than a token theatrical release to support its distribution via video-on-demand. - 75
The A.V. Club
For Kendrick in particular, it’s a sign that she could sing her way through something bigger. - 70
Variety
Beyond scrappy, The Last 5 Years lacks a unifying aesthetic, as if this were merely the run-through, grabbed on the fly without lights, costumes or location permits. This approach does improve upon the stage show in one key respect, however, allowing us to see all those crooned-over emotions writ large on the faces of its two terrific lead performers. - 63
Movie Nation
No, it’s not deep. But the film, a sung-through (virtually no dialogue) musical by Jason Robert Brown, is sweet and sunny and occasionally funny. - 60
The Dissolve
If there’s any thought to the screen musical being revived as more than a Broadway brand extension, Kendrick makes the emphatic case that she’s the star it should be built around. - 60
New York Daily News
In a small theater, it’s easy to feel like you’re a part of the romance unfolding before you. But in the grander scheme of an impersonal cineplex, it’s an uphill climb. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
The problem is that the romance as depicted is just not interesting enough to sustain realistic treatment. It's sweet but a tad dull. The two characters lack dimension, and their stereotypical situations seem entirely generic.
