Metacritic reviews

It's an even rarer pleasure to see a film that combines exciting action with a smart, well-informed script and vivid yet restrained performances.

It could have been more, could have been a triumph and a classic, instead of simply an effective entertainment.

Lurie manages, despite these obstacles, to inspire Redford to give one of the most layered and interesting performances of his career.

While the film is shot in shades of gray, the drama is played out in black and white.

Often feels choppy, as if chunks of connecting narrative had been lopped off in the editing room.

All crass in its empty bluster and bogus uplift.

Ruffalo, actually, who was so perfect in the little-seen "You Can Count On Me," is the only real reason to sit through The Last Castle.

Miscast, clumsily staged and ideologically wobbly.

Deadly dull.

Lurie's politics aside, it's astonishing that a man who once reviewed films keeps churning out movies full of cinema's most hollow clichés; indeed, he turns out stuff that's even more disjointed and improbable than the most mediocre fare.