A couple weeks ago, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association honored Shirley MacLaine with our Career Achievement award. She was a hoot at the banquet, and she's exactly the same way in The Last Word, in which she plays a cranky retiree who decides she wants her obituary to be written while she's alive so that she can approve it. Sad to say, I was not a fan, for plenty of reasons, which I get into over at Screen International.
