The Last Showgirl - Reviews

In her first serious film role, the ‘Baywatch’ star plays a dancer left adrift as her nightly Vegas show draws to a close – and there’s a shocking vulnerability to her performance.

Pamela Anderson gives performance of a lifetime in rhinestone-studded tale.

Pamela Anderson excels as an over-the-hill Vegas showgirl seeing out her notice period in this low-key, vibey backstage drama from Gia Coppola.

...an absorbing but disappointingly tasteful watch.

...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.

Yes, Pamela Anderson can act, and 'The Last Showgirl' proves it

Anderson is heartbreaking, adorable, truthful.

Pamela Anderson sparkles in poignant Las Vegas tale of The Last Showgirl.

...this is a hell of an impressive showcase for Anderson.

Pamela Anderson’s firecracker second act starts here.