It's a joy to find a movie that can still lift you above the humdrum world, keep you smiling for a few hours and send you back to earth, feeling good about life.

| Apr 5, 2024

The Late Show is fast and exciting, but it isn't a thriller, exactly. It's a one of a kind movie -- a love hate poem to sleaziness.

| Jan 23, 2024

The Late Show is a joke, but not in derision. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 16, 2023

The crowning achievement of the film was the unlikely pairing of Carney and Tomlin, both regarded as comic masters. This changed after Carney’s Oscar-win turn in “Harry & Tonto” and Tomlin’s, non-comic Academy Award-nominated performance in “Nashville.”

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 16, 2022

Writer-director Benton has fashioned two richly human characters, and the talents of Art Carney and Lily Tomlin take them from there, making both roles not only believable but irresistible as well.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 14, 2021

The film's striking originality, as well as its emotional force, stems from the two personalities that stand as an excuse for its mannered plot.

| Jun 14, 2021

Tomlin invests all her genius in this role, fleshing it out into a study in vulnerability. It's the most fully realized characterization of a woman I've seen in ages.

| Jun 14, 2021

[A] nice, expert, satisfying, unpretentious little picture, the kind that they used to make and that now make the late nights pleasanter.

| Jun 14, 2021

It's an old-style film full of character, a genuine throwback to Hollywood's best efforts.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 14, 2021

One of the year's more eccentric but still amusing films.

| Jun 14, 2021

Many movies these days ballyhoo their stars and then deliver drivel. But "The Late Show" is genuinely one in which the slow-burning excitement started cooking the moment it was cast.

| Jun 14, 2021

Playing a modern variation on the classic detective film is not exactly a novel idea, but "The Late Show" does it with such skill and originality that all the lesser revisions seem to fade away.

| Jun 14, 2021

A contemporary comedy thriller that doesn't so much spoof the old genre as reexamine it with sharp, witty, and fond regard.

| Jun 14, 2021

In the inventive teaming of Carney and Lily Tomlin, [Benton] has given viewers a joyously rewarding experience.

| Jun 14, 2021

A gossamer-thin story that bursts into delightful life under the sensitive and splendid talents of the two stars.

| Jun 14, 2021

The tastiest dish being served in movie theaters these days is Lily con Carney.

| Jun 14, 2021

...an intriguing, promising setup that's employed to progressively underwhelming effect...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 27, 2021

[Robert] Benton has succeeded brilliantly in revitalising an overworked genre without destroying its mythology.

| Mar 19, 2020

Other than laughing at Tomlin and feeling sorry for Carney, there's nothing in this Late Show to keep you awake unless you're an incurable insomniac.

| Oct 25, 2019

The photography is handsome, the pace is brisk, the suspense scenes are very well done, but the characterization is superb.

| Aug 14, 2019