Never has a movie belonged so wholly to its stars.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 7, 2023

An extremely satisfying action-comedy, and one that still hasn’t fully received its due.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 31, 2023

They are a funny pair who have to look over their shoulders for the shadowy people who have a piece at stake. It is less of a run and more of a duck-and-cover from all the bullets being fired.

| Feb 14, 2023

The film is packed with impressive action scenes but is carried by the odd couple humor and comic chemistry between [Robert] De Niro, playing his first comedy role in a major Hollywood film... and [Charles] Grodin at his low-key best ...

| Feb 4, 2023

It's trite to say "they don't make 'em like this anymore," but listen, studios really don't make movies like Midnight Run anymore.

| Apr 27, 2021

There's a certain blue-collar demographic pocket in America where "Midnight Run" will live on forever. I still hear manly guys quoting it 30 years later. You wanna die laughing? Here's your chance.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 17, 2020

The comic chemistry between Grodin and De Niro is of a rare, and relentlessly funny calibre.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 13, 2020

...as funny as it is exciting.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 14, 2020

This could have been engaging fluff except De Niro's acting has grown as heavy as Jake La Motta.

| Feb 27, 2020

Midnight Run is a witty, low-key comedy with the accent on character. Individually, De Niro and Grodin are brilliant; together, they are hilarious.

| Oct 30, 2019

What makes Midnight Run so remarkable are its principals, and the supporting cast that keep the audience titillated, laughing and excited for the film's entire 128 minute-running time.

| Oct 9, 2016

The interplay between the two leads is pure gold.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 27, 2015

Who said movies always have to be original? This one is redeemed by execution and brilliant talent: De Niro, Grodin, director Martin Brest, composer Danny Elfman, most of the cast and technicians.

| Jul 30, 2013

A thoroughly engaging action film, Midnight Run boasts a superb cast that transforms its rather mundane story line into something memorable, funny, and moving.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 30, 2013

Wonder why De Niro doesn't do comedy this good any more.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2013

A performance like De Niro's, in a well-made entertainment like Midnight Run, is cheap at any price. And capable of restoring the audience's faith in the form.

| Jul 30, 2013

Midnight Run is an inside-out, upside-down buddy film and comedic cross- country caper. It also is the entertaining excuse for Robert De Niro, the Method actor of his generation, to cut loose and play things light for a change.

| Jul 30, 2013

As with all the best road movies -- and this is one of the best -- the picture really moves, as a simple air trip from New York to LA turns into a saga of trains and automobiles, car crashes, and skirmishes with the FBI and [other] interested parties.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2013

De Niro is nervily hilarious and Grodin nervelessly exceptional in Midnight Run, a formula buddy movie exalted to insta-classic status by their performances.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 30, 2013

De Niro is probably the most intense and idiosyncratic actor of his generation; Midnight Run may be the most conventional movie I've ever seen.

| Jul 30, 2013