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

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

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

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

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

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

| Jan 21, 2009

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

You'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.

| May 20, 2003

It has an eye and an ear for the way we live now, and it has a heart, too, and a sense of humor.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000