‘Freud’s Last Session’: Psychobabble Versus The Good Book

Riveting performances by the two leads can’t save this uneven misfire.

C.S. Lewis (Matthew Goode, L) and Sigmund Freud (Anthony Hopkins), in "Freud's Last Session." Sony Pictures Classics

PG-13 | 2h 2m | Drama, Biography, Revisionist History | Dec. 22, 2023

With the noted exception of musicals, movies based on stage plays rarely work. For the first half of its two-hour running time, “Freud’s Last Session” (“Session”) is one the few exceptions to this rule. Then, as they say, it’s all downhill from there.