Last Days in the Desert: reviews

What the critics say average 6.5 from 7 outlets

• 8.0 The GuardianJordan Hoffman A smart and beautiful meditation of fathers and sons (and the Father and Son) that is slow but never boring. Read
• 8.0 VarietyJustin Chang 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. Read
• 6.7 The PlaylistRodrigo Perez An admirable and touching picture. Read
• 6.5 The WrapDave White 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. Read
• 6.0 Los Angeles TimesRobert Abele At times a beautiful wandering, at other times an admirable character study, but rarely a powerful whole. Read
• 6.0 The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthy 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. Read
• 4.2 IndiewireRodrigo Perez 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 Read