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...you know there is something special here. You just wish there was more of it.

It’s Pamela Anderson’s deceptively fragile performance that shoulders The Last Showgirl, her breathy, girlish rasp the perfect match for Shelly’s fluttery chatterbox personality. She is captivating, fully dissolved in the character...

There’s a meaty extra-textual layer to chew over in examining Anderson’s public persona in tandem with the ugly realities that Shelly is forced to confront...

Pamela Anderson Dazzles...

Like the character at the heart of Coppola’s film — the eponymous “last showgirl” Shelly — Anderson has been forced to spend most of her life contending with unfair expectations and unreasonable requests.

Las Vegas may demolish its own history, but The Last Showgirl will break your heart by showing you a woman clinging to the rubble of her life.