The Last Duel

"(The Last Duel) feels lopsided and unwieldy."

"By the time the film gets round to showing its hand as an episode of Medieval #MeToo, it has numbed us with so much flash and fustian that the heart of the story has almost been drowned."

"Intriguing but overcooked..."

"Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, writing as a pair for the first time since Good Will Hunting, present basic facts about contemporary gender politics as earth-shattering revelations..."

"The story's action is visceral and relentless..."

"Who else but Scott has the required vision and nerve, never mind the resources, to keep making films like this these days?"

"The Last Duel has mixed results as a socially conscious drama, but as a hardcore period action film, it's brutally effective..."

"As ambitious and memorable and impressively messy a storytelling experiment as major-studio films come these days."

"There's a power to this film's blunt era-crossing outrage."