What Last Days offers is a blank and narrative-free, but pitch-perfect, dreamscape on which to project your own personal ruminations on Kurt, fame, whatever, nevermind. If you have none, you're on your own.
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Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
There is a method to its madness, since the madness here is really Cobain's. Last Days mythologizes his suicide as a haunting act of fulfillment: the consummation of a life that had already ceased to be.
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USA TodayClaudia Puig
USA TodayClaudia Puig
The glacial pacing may put some people off, but it also has a hypnotic quality. And some viewers might find it fascinating to be a voyeur into someone's tortured psyche.
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The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
In the end, it feels like a life aestheticized, not examined.
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Film Threat
Film Threat
A victory for ambitious filmmaking if not always a successful attempt at character study.
Result is dead-on depiction of the hedonistic rock lifestyle, punctuated by sequences of haunting beauty but also quasi-religious imagery that borders on tacky.
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The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
Yet music, the one thing that might have given the film some kick, is de-emphasized, with only two songs sneaking into the picture.