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27 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50Orlando SentinelRoger MooreOrlando SentinelRoger MooreIt’s not a great film, with some edge Sparks put in the novel left out of the script. But there’s real chemistry between the young lovers and an old fashioned virtue to the father-daughter, father-daughter’s boyfriend scenes.
- 50Village VoiceMelissa AndersonVillage VoiceMelissa AndersonI can’t recall ever squirming as much as I did during Ronnie and Will’s first kiss; shiny, buff Hemsworth looks like he’s locking lips with an Andy Hardy–era Mickey Rooney in a wig.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe movie so deftly mixes sentimentality, romance and bathos in just the right measures that her fans and maybe new ones will enjoy the new Miley.
- 50VarietyVarietyA soapy meller that transitions the young pop star from the Disney Channel to the bigscreen while giving girls what they'd seem to want and nothing more.
- 50Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisA more convincing star could make this a degree more tolerable, although in Cyrus’s defense not much more.
- 40Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichMaybe Douglas Sirk could have made something profound out of the pseudo-ennobling horsepucky. As is, The Last Song is what the crinkle-nosed Southern belle in all of us would resoundingly deem “Trash! Trash! Trash!”
- 40New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanSo who was the movie really made for? Mostly, it seems, for Cyrus herself, who needed to take the first, hesitant step in another direction.
- 30The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottA movie that is as stuffed with bogus feeling and overwrought incident as a fast-food burrito.
- 25Miami HeraldConnie OgleMiami HeraldConnie OgleThe Last Song, yet another maudlin remake of a Nicholas Sparks bestseller.
- 0New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickIt's the worst of both worlds as Disney cash cow Miley Cyrus makes the most dubious "dramatic" debut of any singer since Britney Spears.