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21 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 40CineVueJohn BleasdaleCineVueJohn BleasdalePenn's film doesn't entertain greatly nor does it have much coherent to say.
- 30Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonThe film is mostly unmoving, neither the romance nor the social consciousness succeeding in stirring our emotions. Even worse, Penn lets the plight of displaced Africans slip into the background, resulting in yet another well-meaning film that wants to address planetary ills by concentrating our attention on the good-looking outsiders who come in to save the day.
- 30VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanThe Last Face would have been a better movie if it had an actual screenplay, rather than the bare-bones one credited to Erin Dignam.
- 20The GuardianBenjamin LeeThe GuardianBenjamin LeeNothing about the film comes close to authenticity and it’s largely down to Penn’s remarkably amateurish direction.
- 20The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid Rooney[A] stunningly self-important but numbingly empty cocktail of romance and insulting refugee porn.
- 20Time Out LondonDave CalhounTime Out LondonDave CalhounSean Penn's pompous, ethically bankrupt humanitarian aid drama The Last Face would surely have worked better as a charity single.... Instead, we get this vain mess, a vacuous romance with real human pain as background noise and where the only honest pleasure is waiting to see what misstep it will take next.
- 0The Film StageRory O'ConnorThe Film StageRory O'ConnorThe nonsense really is rampant throughout, but the writing is on the wall (quite literally) from the opening introductory paragraph.
- 0The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicThe PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicIt’s, all told, a preposterous and pretentious mess of a film, and all the good intentions in the world don’t mean anything when the execution is as ham-fisted as it is here.