Michael has a great job, has his 4 best friends, and is in love with a beautiful girl at 30. He loves Jenna but his life seems predictable until someone else enters his life. It seems that everybody's having relationship problems.
Only the most rabid chick-flick fan will fail to notice that it's the movie that's all wet.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
24 Nov 2006
rotten:
Relatively compelling at the time, it's just a bit too glib to resonate for much longer afterwards.
– Trevor Johnston,
Time Out,
19 Oct 2006
fresh:
Danner will surely win an Oscar if enough people see this film, but the real point is that her stormy, erratic gender-bender Lear performance elevates The Last Kiss above a well-made genre drama.
– Andrew O'Hehir,
Salon.com,
7 Oct 2006
rotten:
The Last Kiss bears the unmistakable Haggis touch, one as subtle and understated as an electric chainsaw through the spinal cord.
– Nathan Rabin,
AV Club,
23 Sep 2006
fresh:
... what makes The Last Kiss especially satisfying is its vision of love as the soul of partnership -- rather than the crack high known as romance -- and something worth fighting for.