67
Metascore
50 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80IGNIGNThe Last Duel’s staggering trial by combat allows for some brilliant performances, brutal fights, and impactful social commentary.
- 80Total FilmJames MottramTotal FilmJames MottramScott’s usual scope and scale meet unreliable narrators for a thought-provoking tale of systematic abuse. In a classy cast, Comer shines brightest.
- 80SlashfilmMarshall ShafferSlashfilmMarshall ShafferUltimately, Scott knows when to let the script beguile the mind and when to let the action dazzle the eyes.
- 75The PlaylistJessica KiangThe PlaylistJessica KiangIt’s really rather heartening that Affleck, Damon, and Driver are all on such good form in betraying their gender to this degree, as they conspire in illustrating, in a fun, undemanding, slickly made way, how men are now and have always been, the absolute fucking worst.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyUltimately, The Last Duel is the affecting story of one woman’s quiet heroism that requires you to wade through a lot of blustery accounts of the honor, the pride and the wars of men in order to get to it. Which is kind of like perpetuating the patriarchy.
- 60VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanDespite a brief action interlude here or there, The Last Duel turns out to be a lavishly convoluted and, at times, rather interesting medieval soap opera.
- 40The GuardianJonathan RomneyThe GuardianJonathan RomneyAn all-star cast and some showstoppingly horrible hair can’t save Ridley Scott’s medieval epic.
- 40Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganScreen DailyFionnuala HalliganWhether it’s the sheer weight of the narrative repetition - which involves rewatching a brutal rape - or the two-men/one-woman perspective, which results in an underwritten character and a strained performance from Comer, The Last Duel is crushed by the weight of its own armour.