Fresh
One of the few films to get at the ways in which single mothers and their sons alternate being authority figures.
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture
Overview
Tanya leaves Moscow with her street-wise 10-year-old son Artiom to meet her English fiancée in London. But after he fails to turn up at the airport, Tanya, intent on staying in England, is forced to apply for political asylum and transferred to Stonehaven, a grimy former seaside resort where refugees are housed. Tanya gradually develops a relationship with an amusement arcade manager, who helps them escape. She must then decide whether to stay with him or return to Russia.
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94%
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Fresh
Dramatically low-key, Last Resort is beautifully acted, with striking realism.
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle
Fresh
Gives grim and gritty a good name.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
Fresh
Moving and eerily beautiful.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh
Pawlikowski ... renders the events of Last Resort so unsentimentally that they unfold with the authenticity of an affecting documentary.
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
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IMDb
7.3
Rotten Tomatoes
94%
Metacritic
78
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