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17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAbout Last Night... is a warmhearted and intelligent love story, and one of the year's best movies.
- 90Los Angeles TimesSheila BensonLos Angeles TimesSheila BensonTender, marvelously well played (by almost everyone) and thoroughly engaging. When it comes to the current sexual skirmishes between men and women, screenwriters Tim Kazurinsky and Denise DeClue (Second City alumni) know every inch of enemy territory and take no prisoners.
- 88Chicago TribuneGene SiskelChicago TribuneGene SiskelThis is the movie "St. Elmo's Fire" wanted to be and missed by a mile.
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe core of honesty that distinguishes the production remains unchanged by time, ensuring that, no matter how many years have passed, About Last Night... still works on an emotional level.
- 50The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyYou've a right to wonder why anyone would want to work so hard - with such an expenditure of imagination - to transform a play with such a distinctive voice into a movie that sounds like any number of others.
- 50TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineThe second leads are far more interesting: Belushi brings a brash, hearty presence to the film, while Perkins is wonderfully acerbic. Their scenes together are the movie's best.
- 50Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrAs the envious, destructive best friends of the central couple, Jim Belushi and (especially) Elizabeth Perkins have the actor's know-how to fill in the gaps, but as the lovers, Rob Lowe and Demi Moore are hopelessly pallid.
- 50Time OutTime OutThe screenwriters work many nice little observations into their occasionally over-quippish script, but this is considerably smaller than the sum of its parts: it gets the detail, but misses the big picture.
- 40The New YorkerPauline KaelThe New YorkerPauline KaelThe screenwriters retain much of Mamet's dialogue, but they piece it out, and the director punches up the breaks between scenes with rock music. It's like being pounded on the back every two minutes when your back is already sore (because the dialogue has been whacking you so hard).