A film about a junkie rock musician, played by Michael Pitt at his most narcissistic, doing nothing in particular for the better part of 97 minutes isn't my idea of either a good time or a serious endeavor. Jonathan Rosenbaum,Chicago Reader
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08/12/2005 @ 12:00 AM
Last Days is director Gus Van Sant's meditation on the death of Kurt Cobain, and an extraordinary meditation it is. Ty Burr,Boston Globe
Last Days offers some insight into Cobain's final frame of mind, but balks at the gates of deeper truth. Peter Howell,Toronto Star
Gus Van Sant ventures into the valley of death steering by an idiosyncratic compass and forsaking the aid of a conventional cinematic map. Rick Groen,Globe and Mail
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08/11/2005 @ 12:00 AM
Shot in long, single takes, the movie willfully tests your patience. You wish it would hurry up. Yet when it ends, it haunts you for a few days. (Well, me anyway.) Steve Murray,Atlanta Journal-Constitution
This movie, depending on what you do with it, can be boring, brilliant or both. Tom Maurstad,Dallas Morning News
If you're going to make a movie about Kurt Cobain, you might as well make a movie about Kurt Cobain. Bill Muller,Arizona Republic
Van Sant uses Cobain's image for a portrait of physical and moral disintegration, but he also exhilarates us with his mastery of image and sound. Michael Wilmington,Chicago Tribune
Sometimes we see Blake through the window, but, as he moves around the room, often we see nothing but the far wall. Depending on your perspective, this is either incredibly gutsy or incredibly boring. Jeff Strickler,Minneapolis Star Tribune
Last Days is a definitive record of death by gradual drug exhaustion. After the chills and thrills of Sid & Nancy and The Doors, here is a movie that sees how addicts usually die, not with a bang but a whimper. Roger Ebert,Chicago Sun-Times
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08/05/2005 @ 12:00 AM
In putting the onus for meaning on viewers, Van Sant has pinned the film's success to our subjectivity. It might not guarantee fondness. Yet what an extraordinary collaboration it makes. Lisa Kennedy,Denver Post
Last Days leaves a haunting impression of a man who, even at the height of his fame and adulation, was hiding in plain sight. Ann Hornaday,Washington Post
Watching paint dry would be better. At least the paint would be busy drying. Bruce Westbrook,Houston Chronicle