It has a lot to say about the fears people have about committing themselves to a relationship.

| Jul 27, 2024

...a smart, funny romantic comedy that benefits from its memorable dialogue and surfeit of compelling performances...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 1, 2024

…may not have been a good adaptation of Mamet’s play, but transplanting some of his dialogue made this a hit, by dint of salty dialogue and a frankness about sex that set it apart from the pack even in the incessant rain of horniness that was the 80’s…

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 10, 2024

Writers DeClue and Kazurinsky have created a recognizable geography for every age; you suspect that About Last Night will set off pangs of identification everywhere.

| Feb 13, 2014

Odious.

| Feb 13, 2014

Engaging performances from the two leads are complemented by a witty script with some great one-liners, and five-star support from James Belushi.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 13, 2014

About Last Night... is occasionally wonderful, but inevitably disappointing.

| Feb 13, 2014

Homework assignment: Is the decision to change both the title and the thrust of Mamet's play evidence of perversity or of perversion? Due tomorrow. Class dismissed.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 13, 2014

The shocks of recognition are largely absorbed by the standard narrative structure that replaces Mamet's blackouts; the characters, instead of functioning as archetypes, look underwritten, half alive.

| Feb 13, 2014

Lowe and Moore do well as the on-again, off-again partners, although it is James Belushi, in an over-the-top supporting performance his brother John would have been proud of, who all but walks off with the show.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 12, 2014

What emerges on the screen, however, is largely bland and prettified, virtually indistinguishable from any other trendy Hollywood romance of its period.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 12, 2014

This is the yuppie drama that St. Elmo`s Fire wanted to be but wasn't.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 16, 2013

It takes a lot in order for Jim Belushi to be the best actor in something.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Oct 13, 2009

Starts out strong and has potential, but then deteriorates into soap opera and endless montages.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 31, 2009

Film lacks much of Mamet's grittiness, but is likable in its own right.

| Jan 21, 2009

Great adaptation of Mamet's play...if they ever make my life story, Jim Belushi is playing me!

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 15, 2008

The screenwriters work many nice little observations into their occasionally over-quippish script, but this is considerably smaller than the sum of its parts.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 5, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 4, 2005