“The Last Bus” is several things, but above all it’s a moving meditation on life, love, and the commitments we make to those closest to us. It’s also a beautiful reminder of the blessing of memories.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2022

Adding a modern social-media twist to the episodic odyssey only exacerbates the sappiness Spall cant entirely mitigate.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Apr 23, 2022

Spall does what he can -- but The Last Bus only sputters to life and credibility in a few flashback sequences.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 14, 2022

A typical English film. Meaning it features a rather small story, is filled with quirky moments, involves no action sequences, and strong acting.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 10, 2022

Too straightforward to have gone anywhere not expected.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Mar 4, 2022

This British drama has such a tender, heart-warming premise, that is incredibly difficult not to be moved by it. But director Gillies MacKinnon and writer Joe Ainsworth perhaps just need to remember that sometimes, less is more.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 3, 2022

Spall's performance aside, it's difficult not to wish that the movie hadn't been so intent on sending poor Tom on quite so sentimental a journey.

Full Review | Feb 23, 2022

Extolling the virtues of public transportation and reciprocal kindness toward seniors, this bittersweet British road-trip drama overcomes its earnest sentimentality thanks to Timothy Spalls powerfully understated performance.

Full Review | Feb 18, 2022

For a tender movie that follows an old man on a long and demanding multi-bus excursion to honor his late wife’s wishes, the placid affair has curiously little emotional range, and an even narrower sense of stakes.

Full Review | Feb 18, 2022

There's very little to this material, despite Spall's best efforts.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 18, 2022

To be sure, the film wanders and at ninety minutes, still feels a bit long. Be that as it may, Spall keeps you hooked throughout, the actor providing a quiet sense of dignity and determination that makes us admire and root for Tom.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Feb 17, 2022

A touching film that will remind all of us to embrace the ones we love as often as we can.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 17, 2022

Timothy Spall gives a career-defining performance as an elderly man making one last bus-hopping trip across the breadth of the U.K.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 16, 2022

Director Gillies MacKinnon's sensitivity toward the material becomes apparent from the start, but the inertia of the first third of the movie soon sputters and loses momentum.

Full Review | Feb 11, 2022

A gentle and bittersweet watch.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 2, 2021

Anchored by the gifted Timothy Spall, the film spins a wistful but emotionally resonant tale, infusing earthy wit into even some heart-stopping moments.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 2, 2021

I love public transport and I cry at the drop of a genuine 1950s trilby hat, but The Last Bus is simply too earnestly clunky. Spall is terrific though, and Tom's tragedies movingly revealed.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 31, 2021

You won't want to stick out your hand for this one.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2021

[A] plodding road-trip movie...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2021

The film's faith in human nature is noble, but its comforting effect would have been greater if the dialogue hadn't been so stiff.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2021