Last Night in Soho Reviews
Anya Taylor-Joy and Matt Smith are at the top of their game in the film's entertaining flashbacks but genre mash-ups are a risky. business.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 10, 2024
Last Night in Soho may be a bit of retro fun, but its politics are as shallow as a puddle.
| Sep 19, 2024
Last Night in Soho serves as a worthy nostalgia piece, but also warns against perils of living in the past.
| Aug 27, 2024
In “Last Night in Soho” the sins of the past bleed into the chaos of the present to deliver something visually arresting and chillingly atmospheric.
| Jul 15, 2024
“Last Night in Soho” has an ambitious story. It wants to be a coming-of-age story, a period piece, a horror mystery, a supernatural thriller. It comes very close to working before it falls apart by wading into Shyamalan territory with needing a twist.
| Jun 9, 2024
Regardless of some questionable narrative choices, the pure spectacle of Last Night in Soho may well have audiences wanting to go downtown in Swinging London.
| Sep 17, 2023
If Last Night In Soho is not Edgar Wright’s finest moment as a director, it is a fine advert for his obvious qualities as a filmmaker, with the slow build-up of action creating an undercurrent of tension and showing his appreciation for the horror genre.
| Aug 8, 2023
Last Night in Soho is part psychological thriller, part coming-of-age story, part terrifying horror film with timely social commentary, and part ode to a specific time and place that lives within many of us.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 8, 2023
The build-up toward these climax hints at catastrophe, both for the characters involved and the narrative itself.
| Original Score: C- | Jul 29, 2023
Wrapping oneself up in the warm blanket of nostalgia has always been an alluring proposition. Cult filmmaker Edgar Wright provides a corrective to those rose-colored cravings with Last Night in Soho, a creepy ghost story with a twist.
| Jul 25, 2023
Last Night in Soho is a visually stunning letdown.
| Jul 25, 2023
Anya Taylor-Joy stars in this horror mystery that's heavy on neon lights and eye-popping visuals, but low on satisfying climaxes and nuanced storytelling.
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 21, 2023
The multifaceted, nuanced quality of music is vital to Last Night in Soho, in which people aren’t so easily defined.
| Jun 6, 2023
The end result is a film that doesn’t feel like it’s selling out to one particular style, but is effectively evoking all of them.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 22, 2022
Last Night In Soho is far from flawless, but it proves a fun and fascinating step forward in Wright’s oeuvre.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 12, 2022
The characters get lost in this meandering malaise.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 23, 2022
LAST NIGHT IN SOHO looks back at the 1960s through the dreams--often nightmares--of Ellie, a would-be fashion designer (played by Thomasin McKenzie), in the present-day. This is a surprising film with enough ideas for two films.
| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 18, 2022
Last Night in SoHo doesn’t feel bold enough to deliver on its more scathing commentary, delivering on cultivated cinematic moments that make it a diverting, if relatively empty vessel.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 21, 2022
Wright makes a good fist of this sort of psychogeographic ghost story, reaching deep into his bag of visual tricks to bring ‘60s Soho to life.
| Aug 18, 2022
This psychological horror thriller has elements that would be right at home on the pages of an early Stephen King novel or being introduced by Rod Serling on a Fall Friday evening on CBS.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2022