The Last Five Years (2015) Movie Critic Review

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The Last Five Years (2015) Movie Critic Review
Rating:     Rated PG-13 for sexual material, brief strong language and a drug image
Production:     Lucky Monkey Pictures
Genres:     Drama, Comedy, Romance, Musical
Country:     USA
Language:     English 
Director;     Richard LaGravenese
Stars:    Alan Simpson, Allison Macri, Anna Kendrick, Betsy Wolfe

The Last Five Years (2015) Movie Critic Review - The Last Five Years Movie Directed by Richard LaGravenese. Under Production: Lucky Monkey Pictures. In Cinema Feb 13, 2015 with Stars: Alan Simpson, Allison Macri, Anna Kendrick, Betsy Wolfe

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The Playlist | Kevin Jagernauth
Though LaGravenese's faithfulness to the songbook is perhaps admirable, the results don't quite work cinematically.
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The Hollywood Reporter | David Rooney
The problem is that the romance as depicted is just not interesting enough to sustain realistic treatment. It's sweet but a tad dull. The two characters lack dimension, and their stereotypical situations seem entirely generic.
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Los Angeles Times | Betsy Sharkey
The Last Five Years is not unpleasant to watch — the leads are delightful — but as a movie experience, it's not especially satisfying either.
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The Globe and Mail | Liam Lacey
This bare-bones adaptation is more of a sop to the musical’s fans than a fully imagined movie musical.
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The Dissolve | Scott Tobias
ThiIf there’s any thought to the screen musical being revived as more than a Broadway brand extension, Kendrick makes the emphatic case that she’s the star it should be built around.
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Tribune News Service | Roger Moore
No, it’s not deep. But the film, a sung-through (virtually no dialogue) musical by Jason Robert Brown, is sweet and sunny and occasionally funny.
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Variety | Peter Debruge
Beyond scrappy, The Last 5 Years lacks a unifying aesthetic, as if this were merely the run-through, grabbed on the fly without lights, costumes or location permits. This approach does improve upon the stage show in one key respect, however, allowing us to see all those crooned-over emotions writ large on the faces of its two terrific lead performers
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The New York Times | Stephen Holden
In Mr. Jordan’s portrayal of Jamie, this handsome talented musical theater performer (“Newsies”) goes for the jugular in taking down his character and making him insufferable.
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New York Post | Lou Lumenick
Let us now praise Anna Kendrick, who is positively great in the small-scale The Last Five Years — so utterly wonderful that this adaptation of an off-Broadway musical deserves better than a token theatrical release to support its distribution via video-on-demand.
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