The great Shirley MacLaine, the female lead in the Academy Award-winning 1960 romantic comedy “The Apartment,” delivers a memorably surly performance in “The Last Word” as control freak ...

Shirley MacLaine Gets 'The Last Word' — And You'll Want It To Be A bitter retiree hopes a few good deeds will salvage her reputation in this insipid dramedy. MacLaine is Hollywood royalty, but ...

If not for the patron saint of spunky dames, Shirley Mac­Laine, there would be little to recommend "The Last Word," a comedy-drama that — except for MacLaine's quicksilver performance — goes ...

Amanda Seyfried, left, Shirley MacLaine and AnnJewel Lee star in the 2017 dramatic comedy 'The Last Word.' (Beth Dubber/Bleecker Street) If nothing else, the dramatic comedy "The Last Word ...

If nothing else, “The Last Word” demonstrates that Shirley MacLaine still has the comic chops and screen presence that have made her a Hollywood legend. Unfortunately, not even she can make ...

‘THE LAST WORD’ 2 stars. Rating: R (for language) Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Amanda Seyfried, AnnJewel Lee Dixon, Thomas Sadoski, Philip Baker Hall. Director: Mark Pellington. Running time: 1 ...

But lately she's only come up with lumps of coal like "The Last Word." It starts off foolishly and then gets worse. MacLaine is Harriet, a perfectionist octogenarian who realizes she will soon die ...

Shirley MacLaine has lived a lot of lives, but the one she has in “The Last Word” isn’t much fun. She’s Harriet Lauler, an 81-year-old with very particular ideas on how everyone ...

In a time where current events have led many to develop a pessimistic outlook, the cast of new Mark Pellington-directed drama “The Last Word,” starring Shirley MacLaine, shared a message of ...

Actors are the most visible links the movies possess to their own past, because while actors age, the image of them that we carry with us does not. When you look at Shirley MacLaine today, you can see ...

When the MacLaine character’s ex-husband, priest, co-workers and gynecologist tell the writer nothing but horror stories, she launches an 11th-hour campaign to meet folks, win friends and inf… ...