At its best, though, Saturday Night Fever gets at something deeply romantic: the need to move, to dance, and the need to be who you'd like to be. Nirvana is the dance; when the music stops, you return to being ordinary.

| Sep 18, 2023

Saturday Night Fever makes good moviemaking seem easy.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 8, 2018

Saturday Night Fever assaults you with a flagrantly foul-mouthed script and coarse viewpoint.

| Dec 21, 2015

Saturday Night Fever is wonderfully honest and completely accurate when it comes to depicting that stagnant environment that keeps young people like Tony pinned down.

| Apr 7, 2015

Saturday Night Fever's heart is actually in the right place. It's ears, though? That's another story.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 10, 2009

A small, solid film, made with craft if not resonance.

| Apr 27, 2009

Travolta's characterization, given the script and directorial demands, is okay. It will please the already-committed; but it won't win him any new fans.

| Mar 5, 2009

In the end, the real killer is the movie's abject sincerity.

| Feb 9, 2006

Mr. Travolta is deft and vibrant, and he never condescends to the character, not even in a scene that has Tony and Stephanie arguing about whose Romeo and Juliet it is, Zeffirelli's or Shakespeare's.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 20, 2003

Today mostly regarded as disco camp, Saturday Night Fever should rank as one of the great American films.

| Mar 10, 2003

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2001

There's a lot in the movie that's sad and painful, but after a few years what you remember is John Travolta on the dance floor in that classic white disco suit, and the Bee Gees on the soundtrack.

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