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2010
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Positive Reviews
27
Negative reviews
50
Average Rating
2.1
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3.0
These are guaranteed to result in tears, for the sad fictional people on screen as well as for the satisfied real people watching in movie theaters.
EW
3.1
This is Nicholas Sparks.Could you send over the new Cormac McCarthy novel
Rogerebert
2.0
But the movie aspires to be too many things an inspirational movie, a dark family drama, a study of class conflict that it isnt great at any of them.
Common Sense Media
1.5
Veteran TV director and first time film director Robinson moves the story forward competently, and Kinnear pleasantly modulates his performance from i ..
Austin Chronicle
2.0
As a chaste romance ensues, things are enlivened by 13 year old Bobby Coleman as Ronnies brother: a cute, characterful kid, hes the one wholl get you ..
Time Out
1.9
Engineered to entice tween female moviegoers and repel everyone else, The Last Song marries Hannah Montana moppet Miley Cyrus and soapy novelist Nicho ..
2.5
Cyrus is game and appealing, but shes not nearly enough of a natural actress to pull off the emotional whip cracks the story puts Ronnie through.
1.5
In The Last Song hes like a straight, less spastic version of Simon Bishop in As Good As It Gets.
Collider
1.5
Veteran TV director and first time film director Robinson moves the story forward competently, and Kinnear pleasantly modulates his performance from i ..
1.0
It sounds like standard biopic fodder but Bellocchio presents it as a grand exercise in sensory overload of a kind that hasnt been seen since Ken Russ ..
E Film Critic
1.0
Yes, its Hannah Montana as a cynical brooder, and no, the movie does not pull it off.
E Film Critic
2.0
Cyrus, a lively and wacky presence who isnt yet much of an actress, doesnt make the best case for her own vehicle, but as Nicholas Sparks adaptations ..
Telegraph
2.5
There will be young love in the picturesque South, there will be a battery of contrivances keeping those crazy kids apart, and there will be tragedy a ..
1.3
Cyrus is ghastly in The Last Song, bad not just in one or two ways, but in all kinds of ways. It was a disservice to the audience, to the material and ..
San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
Teen girls raised on Hannah Montana and Twilight may be blindsided by the films sheer ordinariness, not to mention its third act emotional downturn, b ..
2.0
So who was the movie really made for.Mostly, it seems, for Cyrus herself, who needed to take the first, hesitant step in another direction.
Ny Daily News
2.5
The Last Song is a chance to see Miley Cyrus fresh off her Best Actress award.
Philly
3.8
Robinson is a sympathetic director of actors, allowing almost everyone their dignity.
Philly
3.0
If you laid all the cliches in The Last Song end to end, theyd probably circle the globe several times over.
One Guys Opinion
2.0
Years on the Hannah Montana TV series have not adequately prepared Miley Cyrus for screen acting, even in a vehicle as unchallenging as this adaptatio ..
Chicago Reader
1.9
Become a fan on Facebook Follow on Twitter Review by Mark Dujsik | March 30, 2010 Like a bands greatest hits album, The Last Song touches upon just ab ..
Mark Reviews Movies
3.0
The production is solid, no television roots peaking out, and Robinsons gotten good performances from her cast.
2.5
The overbearing sentimentality is leavened by Kinnears grounded performance.
Usa Today
3.1
Filmmaker Amin Matalga does a nice job of eliciting impressive performances from a cast comprised primarily of unknowns and its also worth noting that ..
Reel Film Reviews
3.0
Yes, but in a way thats mostly harmless.The target audience of 14 year old girls will probably go for it, and theyll be inspired to see a heroine whos ..
Eric Ds Nider
3.0
The jury is still out on Cyruss ability to sustain her screen career over the longer term, but this is respectable enough as a first step in that dire ..
Radio Times
2.0
In fact, despite being accepted to attend Julliard, shed rather live an aimless life and sulk, exacerbated by the fact that shell likely be friendless ..
Screen It
3.0
This isnt necessarily Hemsworths fault; the script and direction are perfunctory at best, with a bland style that lacks much momentum, although pre te ..
Shadows On The Wall
3.0
Watchable drama that never strays too far from the Nicholas Sparks formula but succeeds thanks to likeable performances from Miley Cyrus and Greg Kinn ..
View London
0.0
Displaying approximately 1 expressions, the teenage Cyrus pouts her way through a fire, a wedding and a funeral not to mention intervening in an abusi ..
New York Post
2.5
If the writer Nicholas Sparks knows anything, he knows how to stuff a story till its virtually bursting its fictional seams with the kind of heart tug ..
Film Journal International ..
1.9
The one person here who doesnt embarrass himself is Kinnear. But its hard to see what he saw in this project, aside from a fairly easy paycheck.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
2.5
The director, Julie Anne Robinson, makes sure that any scene that might culminate in thought or reflection instead becomes a montage set to music.
Boston
1.0
The screenplay is by Nicholas Sparks who regularly turns out sentimental bestsellers.
Smh
3.1
In other words, this movie is so sentimental that youll need a hanky or a package of Kleenex if youre a teen girl.
Star Tribune
1.5
For this isnt just a movie about a brat of a teen (Miley Cyrus: Bolt) who thinks the world revolves around her the movie itself appears to believe tha ..
1.9
Sadly, without a single note of originality, Last Song is an awfully long and tiresome tune.
Toronto Star
1.0
Perfect organism !.Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility !
Guardian
1.0
This is not hard to guess, although this is another of those diseases only to be found in Hollywood movies that leaves people looking terrific and fas ..
Daily Mail
1.5
More laughter came as the sun shone through a stained glass window of a church at what should have been a heartfelt and touching moment.
3.0
Dudes seem to resist the cult of Sparks en masse, so dont be surprised if your guy hesitates to join you at the multiplex for this teen romance drama. ..
Movies
1.5
In that moment its the kind of Disney film you sort of wish you were watching instead.
Movies
2.0
All carry hefty emotional baggage, secrets and tragic destinies guaranteed to provoke tears or the need for a sick bag.
Express
0.0
An obvious bid for the teen queen to extend beyond her comfort zone only to then clearly show her limits and need for further development.
Mr Brown Movies
2.5
Four Mass Effect Andromeda novelisations are on the way promising to be canonical to the main game and answer the many questions fans have been asking ..
Total Film
2.5
She retreats far too often into sitcom level emoting, channeling her Hannah Montana alter ego when she should be going for the full Rachel McAdams or ..
Movie Freak
1.9
The rickety plot could easily have been a 50s beach bunny meets Brylcreemed beach boy romance, but modern audiences could recognize this one in a tast ..
Groucho Reviews
3.1
Unsurprising and inoffensive, the movie is likely to delight sad young girls and bore bitter old critics.
Nj
2.5
But if youre a teenage girl hanging on the romance elements and family drama of the flick, youll gladly overlook that.
7M Pictures
3.0
Fortunately, The Last Song mercifully avoids some of the clichs of its genre and will likely provide an unforgettably touching and wonderful film expe ..
Boxoffice Magazine
3.0
But by the time Will takes Ronnie home to mother, its tough not to feel manipulated by a story thats so blatantly by the numbers.
E Online
4.5
This is Mileys first dramatic role, and it proves that she should stick with her popular TV character.
Film Ink
2.5
If Ronnie comes around too quickly, the fault is more with the screenplay than with Cyrus, who manages to make you forget the broad slapstick she play ..
Maki At The Movies
2.5
As a vehicle to extend the Miley Cyrus $$$billion$$$ dollar phenomenon of pre teen fandom into a young adult starlet of seventeen, no production value ..
Varia Gate
2.0
The Last Song is a movie that quite deliberately slots together its jigsaw pieces to take its audience on an expected and overly sentimental ride.
Digital Spy
2.0
With all this, and a good cast trying their level best, the film somehow falls flat and fails to come up with one truly memorable scene.
Abc
1.9
So sudsy, predictable and artificially manipulative that it approaches self parody, the film can scarcely be taken seriously as the genre cliches moun ..
Dustin Put Man
2.0
The architect of North Carolina soap operas, Sparks launches another granny shot with The Last Song, an absurdly formulaic tearjerker based around the ..
Brian Or Ndorf
1.0
Cyrus and Hemsworth... represent some kind of theoretical low for how terrible two romantic leads can be, together and separately.
Antagony & Ecstasy
1.3
While Hemsworth isnt exactly a master thespian, this films failure rests squarely on the shoulders of Cyruss disturbingly uneven, uninteresting, unapp ..
1.9
Television director Julie Anne Robinsons big screen debut makes one thing clear: As likable a performer as she is, Cyrus simply cant act. Even Sparks ..
Js Online
1.0
Synopsis Miley Cyrus breaks away from the teen troubadour template to play an adolescent girl obliged to spend the summer with her divorced dad (Greg ..
Sky
1.0
Whats more, the visual murk creates emotional murk; the experience is such a downer that its hard to find moments of up.
Wsj
1.5
Its understandable why Cyrus would want to show shes capable of more than bubbly effervescence. But by overreaching, she only draws attention to her l ..
Jam! Movies
2.5
Even for one not averse to some sentimental uplift in romantic movies, its all a bit much. In fact, its much too much.
The Australian
2.0
The big deal here is Cyrus first serious kiss. The lip locking is about as romantic as two fish gobbling at the same piece of food.
Tri City Herald
3.8
Cyrus does not disappoint her fans and makes a smooth transition from comedy to drama.
Entertainment Spectrum
4.5
If you dont like the character, youre not going to watch the movie.
3.1
Sparks also chips in as screenwriter, so he has no excuse for the messy result, and it doesnt help that director Julie Anne Robinson works the materia ..
Boston Phoenix
1.5
I dont think adults are really going to crave a Miley Cyrus drama, and the kids who want to see it are going to be disappointed by the tone and pace.E ..
The Scorecard Review
1.5
Miley Cyrus must be stopped. Her emotional range includes happy and mad and nothing in between.
Metromix.com
5.0
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Ny Press
3.0
The Last Song hits the big bong of banality early on, and it never recovers.
Week In Rewind
2.0
Its like Dante and Beatrice all over again, with the Georgia coast standing in for Paradise.
MSN Movies
2.5
Cyrus has a likable, unforced screen presence but does not have the training or focus to show us any change more significant than the disappearance of ..
Movie Mom
2.0
Thankfully, Greg Kinnear manages to take the routine material and to make it fresh and believable.
Kc Active
2.0
The Last Song, from Miley Cyrus. If only we lived in a world where movie titles were legally binding.
News Of The World
2.5
The Last Song is filled with great heart and chemistry but is ultimately destroyed by its cliches and cheesy moments.
3.0
However, like Dear John, it is a likable, old fashioned teen romance that fans of romantic dramas and solid stories should enjoy.
Big Hollywood
2.5
Parts of the movie I really appreciate, but the generic romance and distractions severely hamper the overall appeal.
Movie Views
0.6
You can tell Miley Cyrus is trying to show her character is filled with dramatic, painful agony because she scrunches up her face like a Cabbage Patch ..
3.1
No matter: Its intended youngish, girlish audience should like it just fine, satisfied sniffles and all.
Jackson Ville
3.1
It has too many verses and dramatic flourishes, including more than a few eye rolling embellishments, but The Last Song hits enough right notes to ind ..
News Ok
3.1
Movies made from Nicholas Sparks books often have their nice moments and their moments where the sentimentality goes overboard.
Atlantic City Weekly
3.0
While its quite watchable, The Last Song doesnt feel like a film thats been made so much as assembled from standard teen movie clichs.
Daily Mirror (UK)
0.5
Hopefully with this, his second critical flop within two months, Sparks will think thrice before hurting us again. This last song A requiem.
1.9
Lets not be too rough on : Its hard to put ones best foot forward when dealing with a script thats the literary equivalent of cement shoes.
1.0
Miley Cyrus makes a pathetic attempt to demonstrate her non existent dramatic skills in this latest Nicholas Sparks penned story.
Scotsman
1.5
The Cyrus machinery repels any believable human connection onscreen, though shes not helped much by Sparks and Van Wies script.
City Pages
2.0
This is Mileys vehicle, but the strongest scenes are between Kinnear and Coleman.
Amy Weekly
1.5
Its an entire seasons worth of a teen soap opera crammed into a feature film.
Cinematical
1.5
The Last Song isnt much worse than any other Sparks movie, but it does feel a touch more mercenary about its Christian goodness, when even a little me ..
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