The Last Ride hauntingly and sensitively negotiates the final three days in the life and death of the legendary character of mythic proportions, warts and all.
By the back half of the 29th Toronto International Film Festival, Rex Reed has run out of Valium and can't find his plane ticket home. A dispatch on the year the star wattage dimmed, the politics got inescapable, and the depravity wing of the program tested even a critic's stamina.