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Last Ride

Are some bonds meant to be broken?

2009 · 1h 41m · NOT RATED Drama
Directed by Glendyn Ivin

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Overview

A young boy travels across Australia with his father, who's wanted by the law.

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93%
Tomatometer
Fresh

The Australian outback, the setting for most of Last Ride, an extraordinary film for which the locale is a quiet, almost secret catalyst.

Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic
Fresh

The title more or less gives away the film's design, but the predestined journey is taut and tragic nevertheless.

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh

Both Weaving and the movie itself do manage to show that this violent, hopelessly damaged man yearns to be a father, but will never know how.

Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post
Fresh

Mr. Ivin doesn't have a strong narrative line to play with or become distracted by, but he takes off on some lovely detours, whether he's narrowing in on Chook or going wide to take in the world that waits beyond.

Manohla Dargis, New York Times
Fresh

Weaving, best known for The Matrix and the Lord of the Rings trilogies, brings subtlety and poignance to the hoodlum's mercurial character.

Mark Jenkins, NPR

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