Last Days in the Desert's reviews
Media reviews
The Guardian
A smart and beautiful meditation of fathers and sons (and the Father and Son) that is slow but never boring.
Variety
Deliberately paced, sparely imagined and suffused with mystery, writer-director Rodrigo Garcia's seventh feature is nonetheless quite lucid and accessible in its themes of empathy, compassion and sacrifice, and grounded by a Christ/Satan dual performance by Ewan McGregor that plays vastly better onscreen than it sounds on paper.
The Playlist
An admirable and touching picture.
The Wrap
This impulse to do less, to avoid excess, is admirable but in the end it reads as timid, eventually making 'Last Days' feel small and insignificant.
Los Angeles Times
At times a beautiful wandering, at other times an admirable character study, but rarely a powerful whole.
The Hollywood Reporter
Garcia?s take, however beautiful physically, is intellectually opaque and creatively cautious, leaving the interested viewer, whether or not a believer, with much to wonder about but little to actually chew on.
Indiewire
It's a shame that the divine and human elements of this story are put into competition, because either one might have flourished on its own