I love it for its unrelenting inventiveness, its constant motion and its curmudgeonly glass-half-empty outlook.
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09/20/04
After Hours (1985)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:33
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: A surrealistic black comedy that plays on the paranoia and dread of everyday life in the Big Apple, Martin Scorsese's AFTER HOURS captures what is easily the worst night of one man's life. Computer... [More]
Starring: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Tommy Chong
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Reviews for After Hours
Inventive film-making of the first order.
06/24/06
A Kafkaesque drama about paranoia and urban living.
08/22/04
After Hours is not, ultimately, a satisfying film, but it's often vigorously unsettling. In this season of homogenized pap, that should be read as praise.
08/30/04
Top CriticThis is the work of a master filmmaker who controls his effects so skillfully that I was drained by this film.
01/01/00
Top CriticScorsese's showmanship ends up enhancing the film’s dreamlike, surrealist sense of encroaching hysteria.
08/18/04
Scorsese's orchestration of thematic development, narrative structure, and visual style is stunning in its detail and fullness; this 1985 feature reestablished him as one of the very few contemporary masters of filmmaking.
03/31/08
Top CriticA SoHo version of Ulysses? A male rendition of Alice in Wonderland? In Scorsese's brilliant noir comedy, a bored and repressed Everyman becomes an alien in his own town, subjected to one surreal nightmare after another, mostly by women.
05/30/06
Martin Scorsese’s take on NYC puts a hip spin on Joe Minion’s cleverly constructed nightmare.
03/31/08
far deeper than a mere throwaway "one crazy night" movie
04/20/03
This film is so bizarre that not only is it absolutely hysterical to watch, but it's also tense and frightening and one could probably benefit from a small break halfway through the film just to collect yourself.
01/01/00
a comedy that's both uproariously funny (often in a most uncomfortable way) and deeply disturbing at the same time.
07/31/03
Scorsese's directing is at its best.
08/31/04
Darkly comedic and delightfully manic, After Hours is a fresh, funny look at one man's downward mental and emotional slide into an evening of unmitigated SoHo hell.
08/16/04
One of Scorsese's very best films. A dark parable of The Wizard of Oz, with neurosis to spare.
07/20/02
Anxiety-ridden picture would have been pretty funny if it didn't play like a confirmation of everyone's worst fears about contemporary urban life.
03/31/08
Top CriticOne of the most desperately uncomfortable and uncomfortably hilarious dark comedies ever conceived, After Hours is unlike any comedy you’ve ever seen - and one you won’t soon forget.
01/15/03
A wickedly funny black comedy.
07/30/03
During the 80s there was a slew of yuppie revenge flicks where film-makers visited horrors on the heads of young urban professionals and this is probably the best of that mini-genre.
03/31/08
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10/18/08
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