The Last Word's reviews
Media reviews
Variety
"Watching MacLaine?s Harriet embrace her life, after spending too much time rejecting it, leads 'The Last Word' to a touching finish. MacLaine has something that shines through and elevates a film like this one. The movie is prefab indie whimsy, but she gives it an afterglow."
The Hollywood Reporter
"If you must make another entirely predictable comedy about an unapologetic old white curmudgeon who steamrolls all opposition, you can't do better than draft the redoubtable Shirley MacLaine to keep audiences in her barbed corner while we wait for her inevitable bittersweet humanization."
Entertainment Weekly
"Shirley MacLaine?s well-deserved reputation as a salty, snappy grand dame unfortunately precedes her in this sloppy, saccharine drama costarring Amanda Seyfried."
Roger Ebert
"This is, among other things, something of a fatty movie. It goes out of its way to hit beats that it presumes will be satisfying to a mainstream audience."
New York Times
"Some of the movie?s most satisfying moments show Harriet alone in her house, lingering in its empty rooms, needlessly fussing over its sterile perfection and staring into the distance. Ms. MacLaine, 82, holds the screen effortlessly. Too bad she has to share it."
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote