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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertBernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris is one of the great emotional experiences of our time.
- 100TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineShattering social and sexual conventions, Last Tango in Paris stands as one of Bernardo Bertolucci's finer achievements.
- 80The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyBernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris is a beautiful, courageous, foolish, romantic, and reckless film.
- 70Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrThe surface plausibility is probably the contribution of Marlon Brando, whose performance has strength and detail enough to counterbalance Bertolucci's taste for pure psychological essence.
- 60EmpireEmma CochraneEmpireEmma CochraneInteresting for it's historical notoriety, but overlong and dull in places.
- 50VarietyVarietyBernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris is an uneven, convoluted, certainly dispute-provoking study of sexual passion in which Marlon Brando gives a truly remarkable performance.