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1971
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4.7
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5.0
It is more than that; it is a belated entry in that age the best film of 1951, you might say.
Rogerebert
5.0
Simply put, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW belongs in the top 10 all time greatest American movies.
Common Sense Media
5.0
The most affecting scene in the entire film is Sam the Lions mournful monologue, drawing its power from the disparity between recollected passion and ..
2.0
A note to readers: Bold and uncensored, The Austin Chronicle has been Austins independent news source for over 36 years, expressing the communitys pol ..
5.0
Wind and tumbleweed brush the streets of Anarene, Texas in the 1950s, the characters flitting in and out of each others lives, Hank Williams on a juke ..
Telegraph
4.0
The director and cast reunited in 1990 to film McMurtrys more farcical sequel Texasville.
4.2
The well acted and superbly detailed film captures the flavor of a dying town trying to live up to its macho cowboy image, even though its glory days ..
Sover
4.5
This episodic, human story lives and breathes with more power than any Darth Vader or Rocky.
Tv Guide
5.0
As an unsentimental snapshot of an America poised on the brink of unrecognisable change, few movies come near the clarity and humanism of Bogdanovichs ..
The Times
5.0
Review Our Score by David Parkinson Beautifully adapted by director Peter Bogdanovich and Larry McMurtry (from the latters novel), this is a mastercla ..
Radio Times
5.0
Set in the early 1950s, it takes on significant themes frustration and longing, youth and age, memory and mortality but in a quiet, modest way, and it ..
Independent
4.5
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Emanuellevy
5.0
I was teaching at the University of Texas when this movie appeared, and the fact that virtually every one of my students told me that their small home ..
Guardian
5.0
Peter Bogdanovichs masterpiece from 1971, co written with the original novels author Larry McMurtry, is set in a small, dusty, windblown town in Texas ..
Guardian
5.0
Nothing much happens there, and the movie theater is just about the only escape for its inhabitants.
Q Network
5.0
This straightforward, involving, narrative picture about growing up in a small town in Texas in the early fifties was Peter Bogdanovichs first great s ..
New Yorker
5.0
The festival already boasts one film strong enough to be both a commercial and aesthetic hit.The Last Picture Show seems modest to the point of extinc ..
Time
4.8
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Coles Mithey
5.0
Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if ..
Streaming Quickflix
2.5
But its predictability and its calculation mar it for me.The values seem to me to be more contrived humanity instead of the real thing.
Tony Mack
5.0
And there still museums with pay what you wish admission, if not every day, then on certain days weekly or monthly.You just have to know who offers wh ..
New York Time Out
4.5
I guess youll be quittin before long.Genevieve: (ruefully) Honey, we got four thousand dollars worth of doctor bills to pay.
Film Site
5.0
I am merely surveying the silly spectacle of movie makers being treated as all or nothing.
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