I run a site of reviews for bars/lounges/clubs in my area of NYC, I was trying to write myself a new block that displays the 5 most recently written reviews.

It was like a monkey, do a math problem.

Anyone able to help out ?

Here is a block I found for last 10 reviews. It is old and may or may not work, but you could at least look at the code.
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All nuke versions come with a last 10 reviews block just select it via admin, blocks.

But dar63, that would be too easy. Heck I didn't even think about looking there!