Dee Rees's Joan Didion adaptation The Last Thing He Wanted very nearly works thanks to Anne Hathaway, but the film's narrative shortcomings crater it.

What's most frustrating about the film's incoherence is that there are still good sequences amid the chaos.

The Last Thing He Wanted seems so taken with its own intricacy that it manages only to trip itself up.

The Last Thing He Wanted lacks enough substance to become enjoyable. Tensions are never properly set up and characters don't even seem to be living in the world that is created.