Critics’ reviews

Jackass: Best and Last (2026)

16 reviews from 16 publications. Critics’ score 70: 11 positive, 1 mixed, 1 negative.

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Most critics welcome Jackass: Best and Last as an amusing, unexpectedly tender farewell, with praise clustering around the cast’s enduring camaraderie rather than the novelty of the stunts. The shared laughter and willingness to suffer for a gag remain the chief attractions. The reviews also find feeling in the performers’ ageing bodies: familiar gross-out humour now comes with a clearer sense of the physical cost, giving the mixture of archive footage and new material a wistfulness that generally avoids excessive sentiment.

The main reservation is how heavily the film depends on its past. Even favourable reviews describe a greatest-hits package, with too little fresh material to make this a substantial finale. The spread runs from warm appreciation to outright disappointment: the Los Angeles Times finds the laughter forced and the new material half-hearted, missing the suspense and surprise that most critics still find sufficiently present to enjoy the farewell.

The Telegraph
28 June 2026 · Robbie Collin
80*

The final Jackass entry is a surprisingly moving and inclusive celebration of the franchise's friendships and self-inflicted chaos. The critic singles out the cast's ego-less, communal laughter and refusal to punch down as its enduring strength.

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Empire
25 June 2026 · Lou Thomas
75*

The critic finds this a dumbly fitting goodbye to the franchise, with the mix of new stunts and archival clips making for an entertaining final outing despite limited fresh material. They single out the audacious unseen Knoxville stunt involving an arrest for its typical idiocy and escalation.

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Film Comment
· Chris Cassingham
75*

The critic describes the film as largely a victory lap of archival footage and outtakes rather than new stunts, finding it an anticlimax compared to prior entries but noting greater thematic weight from the aging cast and their physical toll.

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The Guardian
25 June 2026
75*

The film is a mostly compilation-style farewell that still delivers enough new laughs and nostalgia to justify its existence. The critic singles out the crew's genuine communal joy and willingness to put themselves in danger as what sets it apart from lesser comedy.

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Slant Magazine
25 June 2026 · Derek Smith
70*

The review highlights the film's wistful nostalgia and male bonding amid gross-out stunts, noting how it celebrates the core crew's legacy without softening their anarchic style, even as new material falls short of past peaks.

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Variety
25 June 2026 · Guy Lodge
70*

The critic finds it an amusing, slightly wistful farewell, mixing greatest-hits clips with new stunts that highlight the gang's enduring disbelief they still get to do this. It gains poignancy from the performers' middle-aged wear and tear while remaining business as usual with physical pain and gross-out gags.

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Vulture
26 June 2026
70*

The critic views it as more of a reverie and clip show than a full movie, noting its mockery of aging through gross-out gags while appreciating the recurring camaraderie and communal laughs despite the retread feel.

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The AV Club
25 June 2026 · C+ · Matt Schimkowitz
63

The review sees the film as a nostalgic victory lap and greatest-hits package that leans into the cast's aging for humor and emotion, delivering funny if uneven stunts centered on male friendship and time's toll.

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Los Angeles Times
26 June 2026 · Amy Nicholson
30*

The critic calls it a middling clip reel that is underwhelmingly tame, with forced guffaws and a hasty, cash-grab feel that lacks the old suspense and surprise. It forgives the gang's desire for one last rally but notes the new material feels half-hearted.

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Radio Times
25 June 2026 · 3 out of 5 · Sean McGeady

The film is a bittersweet greatest-hits package blending classic clips with new bits and interviews, but it feels like a minor, lighter addition that doesn't fully lean into its elegiac potential.

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The Hollywood Reporter
25 June 2026 · Frank Scheck

The critic finds the film a glorified clip job that mixes new stunts with old footage, praising the camaraderie and anarchic joy of the stunts while dismissing the series overall as emblematic of cultural dumbing down.

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Time Out
25 June 2026 · 4 out of 5 stars · Sophie Monks Kaufman

The critic highlights the film's mix of new stunts and archival footage, noting the cast's melancholic awareness of aging and mortality alongside their enduring camaraderie and gross-out humor.

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The Wrap
25 June 2026
85*

The critic calls the film a profanely joyful swan song full of stunts, callbacks and unexpected emotional moments from Johnny Knoxville. They single out the enduring unfettered joy, chemistry and willingness of the cast as what makes the series work.

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Consequence
25 June 2026 · B+ · Liz Shannon Miller
83

The film captures the Jackass crew feeling the effects of aging while delivering a mix of new stunts and archival footage as a fitting finale. It highlights the chaotic, profane humor and emotional nods to the past without excessive sentiment.

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The Playlist
25 June 2026 · B · Marshall Shaffer
77

The critic calls the film a hilarious highlight reel that captures the crew's enduring spirit of absurd stunts and male camaraderie, even as the performers age. It mixes new bits with extensive archival footage from the franchise's history, though the heavy reliance on the latter makes it feel more like a celebratory 'best of' than a true finale.

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NME
25 June 2026 · James Mottram
70*

The review highlights the celebratory mash-up of classic and new stunts with nostalgia and gross-out humor, while noting it feels somewhat quaint in the TikTok era and yearns for the franchise's glory days, yet calls it a suitably anarchic farewell with emotional resonance.

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