...an exceedingly (and occasionally excessively) oddball comedy that is, for the most part, completely watchable from start to finish...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 23, 2024

After Hours is hallucinatory: lit with the clarity of a nightmare and bursting with such surreal details as a cashier who pirouettes as he takes your check and a crescent of mousetraps guarding the bed of a demented cocktail waitress.

| Mar 24, 2024

It’s a shaggy dog story leading to a punchline, of sorts, but one that feels woozy and illusory; it is not like a nightmare exactly, but a strange dream that’s difficult to shake on waking.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 20, 2024

Charming as well as exasperating; fun and tragic. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 6, 2024

Vibrates with manic intensity... Only a director of Scorsese’s caliber could turn profound professional disappointment into such a win as this.

| Nov 11, 2023

Dunne works to make Paul into a reasonable everyman lost in a nocturnal vortex of insanity in which everyone and everything seems cosmically stacked against him, but small moments leave their mark on our sympathies and undercut the film’s effectiveness.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 6, 2023

In After Hours, Scorsese’s camera wanders through a tableau of living and breathing graffiti incarnated as ’80s New York City’s most dangerous bottom-feeders.

| Aug 17, 2023

... this film is funny for the way in which nothing goes right, everything is connected, and despite all his best efforts to get home, it’s as though the universe has a better idea.

| Jul 25, 2023

I have spent 40 years in swoony thrall to this movie. I tremble every single time I watch it. After Hours is an object lesson in sonder.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 24, 2023

Martin Scorsese’s After Hours mines urban anxiety to unsettling yet often hilarious effect.

| Jul 20, 2023

In Martin Scorsese’s 1985 art punk gem, a yuppie lost in SoHo is terrorized not so much by the late-night characters but by the city itself.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 17, 2023

It's certainly not a bad film. There just isn't a whole lot here to see that's particularly gripping or engaging. It has its moments, but not nearly enough to get it to the point of being the zany, high-energy dark comedy that it's trying to be.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 13, 2023

Immaculately shot (by Michael Ballhaus) and vibrantly acted, the movie has a nightmarish quality, a sense of events spinning crazily out of control.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 31, 2022

Scorsese's 1985 release, though not commonly measured alongside his best works, represents a stylistic exercise unmatched in his career

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 14, 2022

Episode 54: After Hours / Bringing Out the Dead / The Irishman

| Original Score: 80/100 | Dec 1, 2021

A great tech time capsule from not too long ago, when PCs were rooted to the desktop and you needed change to place a phone call on a busy street corner.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 22, 2020

After Hours is a surrealistic nightmare, a new wave burlesque with a mainstream slickness.

| Apr 30, 2020

The cruelest of comedies, 'After Hours' makes me laugh so hard I can barely breathe. Not everybody has that reaction, though.

| Apr 5, 2020

He never really seems to be in mortal danger so much as mocked and harassed for being so deeply out of place. For many men, however, being made to feel small is a fate worse than death.

| Jan 21, 2020

It might not make any sense. It might not even matter. But it's a blast while it lasts, and it brings the most perfect of endings along with the sunrise.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 9, 2018