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The Last Thing He Wanted
Directed by
Dee Rees
R
2020
1h 56m
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A veteran D.C. journalist loses the thread of her own narrative when a guilt-propelled errand for her father thrusts her from byline to unwitting subject in the very story she's trying to break. Adapted from Joan Didion's namesake novel.
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Cast of The Last Thing He Wanted
Anne Hathaway
Elena McMahon
Ben Affleck
Treat Morrison
Rosie Perez
Alma Guerrero
Willem Dafoe
Richard McMahon
Edi Gathegi
Jones
Mel Rodriguez
Barry Sedlow
Onata Aprile
Cat McMahon
Toby Jones
Paul Schuster
Carlos Leal
Max Epperson aka Bob Weir
Ben Chase
Max Berquist
Julian Gamble
Secretary George Shultz
Robert Sedgwick
Stewart James
Bill Kelly
General Gus Sharp
David Vadim
Buck Pearson
César Galindez
Red Truck Driver
Diomedes Rodriguez
Glistening Boy
Casiano Ancalle
Elderly Campesino Leader
Lee Markham
Tarmac Secret Service Agent
Betty Jeune
Female Reporter #1
Laura Niemi
Female Reporter #2
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The Last Thing He Wanted Ratings & Reviews
Pajiba
Roxana Hadadi
Dee Rees's Joan Didion adaptation The Last Thing He Wanted very nearly works thanks to Anne Hathaway, but the film's narrative shortcomings crater it.
Alternate Ending
Tim Brayton
A movie whose main thing is that it's not interesting in any way.
Cine Sin Fronteras
Rene Sanchez
A convoluted and incoherent political thriller meant to get lost in Netflix's vast catalogue. [Full Review in Spanish]
Cosmopolitan
Emma Baty
Not even Anne Hathaway can save this one.
Polygon
Karen Han
What's most frustrating about the film's incoherence is that there are still good sequences amid the chaos.
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
The Last Thing He Wanted seems so taken with its own intricacy that it manages only to trip itself up.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
What makes The Last Thing He Wanted ultimately so frustrating (while also elevating it a few notches above its awfulness as a thriller) is the fact that there are things it does quite well.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
How does a director as stellar as Dee Rees go so thunderously wrong adapting a 1996 novel by the great Joan Didion, with a cast headed by Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck, and Willem Dafoe? Here's Exhibit A and the last thing any of us wanted.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Peter Rainer
I found the whole narrative confusing. Even if you can parse it out, it doesn't add up to a whole lot.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
There's some overreach and muddle here - you wouldn't want a pop quiz on the plot - but "Last Thing" remains an intriguing, visually diverting piece, well shot by Bobby Bukowski.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
The big problem with the movie isn't the muddle, but the strain.
Associated Press
Mark Kennedy
There are moments when Hathaway really reveals a hurt deep inside - a scene in which she opens her dad's empty fridge is deeply affecting - but the individual scenes don't add up to a real portrait.
TV Guide
Jordan Hoffman
The Last Thing He Wanted is disorienting, phony, and impossible to follow, and makes for two very uncomfortable hours.
RogerEbert.com
Nick Allen
A true Netflix Original Film paradox -- not even a pause and rewind button at the ready will help it make much sense.
Remezcla
Monica Castillo
The script, which Rees and Maro Villalobos adapted from Didion's book, is barely coherent. It's easy to lose track of what's going on, who's lying about what and why Elena's compelled to make some pretty awful decisions.
The Playlist
Jason Bailey
There's much to admire in "The Last Thing He Wanted," and plenty of signs that Dee Rees' unique talent is intact.
Mashable
Angie Han
It's as if an entire season of television had been whittled down to under two hours, or as if someone had taken a book and ripped out chapters at random. It is, in short, completely incoherent.
IndieWire
Kate Erbland
Didion's work is brilliant as prose, but makes for awkward screenplays; this is a misfire that should have stayed on the page.
The Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
A gifted director misfires.
Variety
Tomris Laffly
The filmmaker's panache only goes so far here, failing to translate the unnecessarily complicated script into something coherent to watch.
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