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17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Village VoiceVillage VoiceIt's the imaginative background, and Fessenden's talent at insinuating it into the action, that counts--and unnerves--in this most chilling of global-warming movies.
- 90L.A. WeeklyScott FoundasL.A. WeeklyScott FoundasThe Last Winter won’t win many fans among those who place the saving of union jobs above the repairing of the ozone layer. But this is a horror movie with many inconvenient truths to tell about the ways in which we are willingly destroying our planet.
- 90Los Angeles TimesCarina ChocanoLos Angeles TimesCarina ChocanoIt's billed as an environmental horror story, but The Last Winter bears all the hallmarks of an ever-popular genre that has always pitted science, technology and reason against emotion, awe and nature. It bears all the hallmarks of the gothic: ghosts, death, alienated sexuality, decay, secrets, madness and, of course, awe and trepidation in the face of the sublime power of nature.
- 80SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirGruesome and terrifying things happen in The Last Winter, but there's no gratuitous gore or torture, and the film's real power comes from its building sense that something really, really bad is ABOUT to happen.
- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoWhile the slow buildup won't bowl 'em over at suburban multiplexes, the film should please Fessenden's loyal followers and win him new ones.
- 75TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghAnd if the film's 11th-hour CGI effects aren't entirely convincing, the notion that oil itself is haunted by the restless spirit of every once-living thing that time reduced and mingled into the earth's black blood throws off a primordial chill.
- 70New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinLike his "Wendigo," the film has a lot of mumbo jumbo about ancient spirits revived and angered by human disrespect--the old Indian-graveyard paradigm, as clunky as ever. But the context is overpoweringly eerie.
- 70VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyAn imperfect but compelling thriller.
- 70The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisSomething wicked this way comes in the nifty horror film The Last Winter, crawling through the hallways and howling into the dread night.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterThe long buildup is too deliberate to please the mainstream horror crowd, and the finale might alienate more niche audiences, but in between there's a good bit to savor.