Last Flag Flying (15)

Comedy, Drama, War

Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.

The critical consensus

Linklater’s hottest streak continues.

Craig Williams, Little White Lies, 23/01/2018

Last Flag Flying is a thoughtful tally of the cost of war on ordinary lives that also manages to be a funny, moving men-on-a-road-trip movie. It’s that rare thing: a sequel, albeit 44 years late, that is worth catching up with.

(*) Ian Freer, Empire Online, 23/01/2018

Any dramatic impetus is diminished by the film's sheer conventionality.

(*) (*) (*) Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 24/01/2018

Linklater allows Cranston, Carrell and Fishburne to give performances of a richness and depth that you won’t find in their more obviously crowd-pleasing movies.

(*) (*) Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent, 25/01/2018

A moderate, timid, blinkered piece of work.

(*) (*) (*) Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 25/01/2018

This wry and rueful film largely consists of three men talking and its static quality makes it feel more like a play with Cranston stealing the acting honours as the rascally, sardonic Sal.

(*) (*) Allan Hunter, Daily Express, 26/01/2018