Cheryl Eddy io9.com Sep 14, 2022

It may at times come across a bit heavy-handed, but its message is still a timely and valuable one, showing a microcosm driven to total collapse by a planet that’s ready to kick humans out of the ecosystem for good.

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Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com Oct 20, 2020 3.5/5

Shot on location in Iceland and unfortunately hobbled by a bit of third act CGI that compromises the rather compelling ecological message.

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David Fear Time Out Nov 17, 2011 2/5

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Nov 3, 2010 B+

It's a pro-environmental apocalyptic shocker that works as a thinking man's ghost story pic.

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Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle Oct 18, 2008 3/5

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Prairie Miller Baret News Jul 23, 2008

An eco-supernatural dreamscape companion piece to Al Gore's cautionary doc, An Incovenient Truth, and a thinking man's figurative and literal sub-Arctic chiller with a turbulent character-driven indie soul.

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Cynthia Fuchs PopMatters Oct 19, 2007

As such terror is harder and harder to articulate, the film is most effective when it abandons dialogue and leaves the camera to do its very spooky work.

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Chris Hewitt St. Paul Pioneer Press Oct 19, 2007 2.5/4

Last Winter does make good on its intriguing premise. And after a dandy beginning and a so-so middle, it delivers a knockout ending.

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John Monaghan Detroit Free Press Oct 12, 2007 3/4

Fessenden, who directed, produced, cowrote, edited and even has a part in the film rightly values mood at least as much as he does delivering more abominable snow monsters.

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Tom Long Detroit News Oct 12, 2007 C+

The problem is that the ghostly culprit, some sort of nature spirit, isn't nearly as terrifying as the arguments that Pollack makes, or the fact that the ice in such places really is weakening.

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Oct 10, 2007 B

Die-hard greenies may find this as unsettling as it's meant to be. For everyone else, it's closer to an atmospheric act of recycling.

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David Wiegand San Francisco Chronicle Sep 28, 2007 1/4

The film isn't very interesting because it isn't well made.

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Noel Murray AV Club Sep 28, 2007 C

The Last Winter's heart is in the right place, but it isn't pumping any blood.

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Ty Burr Boston Globe Sep 28, 2007 3/4

It works eerily well.

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Betsy Bozdech Hollywood.com Sep 28, 2007 1.5/4

Sure, global warming is scary, but chances are even Al Gore would be baffled by Larry Fessenden's moody, Arctic-set 'eco-thriller.'

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Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid Sep 27, 2007 3/4

This message hangs over the entire film... but Fessenden still manages to craft an intense and effective thriller.

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Karina Montgomery Cinerina Sep 26, 2007 4.5/5

Come for the eerie unworldly menace, but stay for the well-balanced currents of terror that manages to sustain itself throughout the film.

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Nathan Lee Village Voice Sep 25, 2007

It's the imaginative background, and Fessenden's talent at insinuating it into the action, that counts -- and unnerves -- in this most chilling of global-warming movies.

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Ron Wilkinson Monsters and Critics Sep 23, 2007 7/10

A well done low budget indie production that lets the viewers' imagination picture how bad it gets when mother earth is finally pushed past the breaking point

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Louis Proyect rec.arts.movies.reviews Sep 23, 2007

A horror movie about the consequences of global warming. Set in the Alaskan Wildlife Natural Reserve, the oil company is far scarier than the monsters that attack the movie's main characters.

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