One of the thrills of the movie is watching the improvisatory trial-and-error process as the dancers explore psychological themes, contorting their graceful, amazingly limber bodies into visual representations of relationships and emotional states.
75
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
The real highlight is watching the dancers as they progress from their first, tentative improvisations to the final, complex performance.
75
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
While it's not a blistering look behind the scenes, Last Dance gives a fuller picture of the creative process than most others of its ilk.
Bank's discursive but oddly riveting documentary, Last Dance, offers a glimpse of what was probably the most important, and conceivably the most bitterly contested, collaboration in Pilobolean history.
70
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
An illuminating glimpse into what goes on in the dance studio.
63
Boston Globe
Boston Globe
Rehearsals are frequently more fascinating than the results. Last Dance, whatever its flaws, fulfills one facet of its mission in making me want to find out whether, in this case, that's true.
60
Village Voice
Village Voice
Last Dance is riveting when it focuses on the challenges of crossing a generational divide --The movie loses steam toward the end.
50
The A.V. Club
The A.V. Club
Displays, in all its discomfort and occasional fruitfulness, the trouble inherent in aesthetics by committee.