The Last One for the Road

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The Last One for the Road

May 2026

1h 40m

Drama

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Two middle-aged friends, who swear each drink is their last, cross paths with a shy architecture student and take him under their wing on a free-flowing bender through the Italian countryside in a scruffy intergenerational odyssey.

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Nell Minow

RogerEbert.com

May 1

3/4

This is an existential story that is a less bleak and more scenic version of Samuel Beckett’s 'Waiting for Godot,' a psychological journey about connection, regret, memory, and meaning.

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Anzhe Zhang

Slant Magazine

Sep 21

2/4

The Last One for the Road gives itself over to an aimlessness that doesn’t so much reflect the characters’ lives as it does the script’s lack of commitment to interiority.

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Tomris Laffly

Variety

06/10/2025

Loosely reminiscent of the happy-sad fables of Alice Rohrwacher, Francesco Sossai’s boozy dramedy is enchanting even when it briefly veers into predictable territory.

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Clotilde Chinnici

Loud and Clear Reviews

2d

2.5/5

The initial premise and idea of the film had a lot of potential on paper, but this remains unfulfilled as the film creates more questions, and admittedly frustration, than it answers.

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Sean Burns

Spliced Personality (Substack)

Jun 7

If nothing’s at stake for the characters, it’s hard for us to invest any deeper than the film’s surface pleasures, which luckily are abundant.

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Oscar Goff

Cambridge Day

Jun 5

2.5/4

Like its central road trip, "Last One" veers miles away from the point, but if you’re on Sossai’s cockeyed wavelength, it’s worth sticking around for one more round.

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virginia S

@Ginny72 May 9

Charming at times, and the appealing young guy saves the movie. I always have a hard time watching dirty drunks, although they weren’t terrible people.

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Synopsis

Two middle-aged friends, who swear each drink is their last, cross paths with a shy architecture student and take him under their wing on a free-flowing bender through the Italian countryside in a scruffy intergenerational odyssey.

Director: Francesco Sossai
Producer: Marta Donzelli, Gregorio Paonessa, Philipp Kreuzer, Cecilia Trautvetter
Screenwriter: Francesco Sossai, Adriano Candiago
Distributor: Music Box Films
Production Co: Vivo Film, Rai Cinema
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Italian
Release Date (Theaters): May 1, 2026, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 16, 2026
Box Office (Gross USA): $8.7K
Runtime: 1h 40m