Pornography, drugs and disco are the driving forces of this potent parable of the partying 1970s from director Paul Thomas Anderson.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 7, 2024

It's so complex in its apparent simplicity... the film presents the opportunity to be examined from different levels from many sides. If you haven't seen it yet, I'm jealous. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 6, 2023

A boldly original and superbly entertaining portrait of the porn industry.

| Original Score: A+ | Jan 10, 2023

Made in the shadow of Paul Verhoeven’s much-maligned Showgirls, even a quarter-of-a-century on Boogie Nights is an evocative, provocative triumph.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 14, 2022

In a world of impossibly muscled-up studs and busty bombshells, the deliberately schleppy Scotty stands out as the film’s beating heart.

| Sep 27, 2022

Philip Seymour Hoffman is a standout in a movie chock-full of standouts.

| Jul 20, 2021

Rarely, if ever, has any filmmaker depicted the void with so much sparkle and wit.

| Jun 7, 2021

...there is enough brilliance-including a drugs-and-guns showdown that outdoes Tarantino-to make it worth sticking around for the end of the party. And nothing could be truer to the Seventies than a party that goes on too long.

| Oct 11, 2019

A beautifully made survey of '70s excess, filtered through the trashy world of the burgeoning porno film industry in southern California.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 28, 2019

It is remarkable that [Seymour Hoffman] was able to stand out-it's packed with great performances from some of the best of the best: Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, Heather Graham, and, of course, Burt Reynolds.

| Sep 24, 2018

The pop 1970s were typified in part by cheesy fashions, ephemeral music and a regular diet of daring, cutting-edge movies that arguably made that decade Hollywood's richest. Blistering Boogie Nights recaptures the spirit of that time on all three counts.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 10, 2018

The Tarantino comparison is ultimately less about technique than a shared joyful electricity of the filmmaking, the sense of an artist clearly high on the sheer act of making a movie.

| Oct 30, 2017

Nights humanized these actors and made them live beyond their reputations.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 12, 2017

Boogie Nights is an impassioned and creative portrait of American souls in distress from a young, passionate filmmaker who threw himself headlong into his movies (his follow-up, Magnolia, pushes even further).

| Jan 13, 2017

Unflinching look at porn industry; lots of sex, drugs.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2012

An epic story of self-delusion with a skill and grace that many more experienced filmmakers would be hard put to match.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 7, 2010

Comparisons are invidious, but inescapable: Boogie Nights is the most stunningly accomplished, attention-grabbing movie by a sophomore director since Pulp Fiction.

| Jul 6, 2010

Boogie Nights, an epic tale of porn, pleasure, and excess, offers a purer hit of exhilaration than any movie this year.

| Original Score: A | Feb 4, 2010

...loud, gaudy, profane, thoughtful, and risqu; you can't say it isn't fun in its own exuberant way.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 18, 2010

Call it the consummate example of director-as-DJ, at least for now.

| Aug 20, 2009