Last Night (2010)
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 61
Fresh: 31 | Rotten: 30
Last Night doesn't opt for easy answers, but the framework and characters overall are too slight and plain to be compelling.
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 10
Last Night doesn't opt for easy answers, but the framework and characters overall are too slight and plain to be compelling.
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Set in New York City, Last Night is the story of a married couple that while apart for one night, is confronted by temptation that may decide the fate of their marriage. Joanna (Academy Award(R) nominee Keira Knightley) and Michael Reed (Sam Worthington) are 7 years into a successful and happy relationship. They are moving along in their lives together until Joanna meets Laura (Eva Mendes), the stunningly beautiful work colleague whom Michael never mentioned. While Michael is away with Laura on
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All Critics (62) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (33) | Rotten (30) | DVD (5)
'Last Night' is an empty exercise in sheer self-regard, a tedious, lifeless trawl through the secret lives of the rich and beautiful.
Top CriticForget about sex or adultery -- there isn't enough life in Last Night.
Tadjedin banks on the power of telling, familiar moments, betting that viewers will recognize the heartache at the center of a fleeting expression or hurried action. For the most part, her gamble pays off.
It's the sort of movie that thinks cutting between two different stories makes it art. Usually, it feels like an exercise in art. There's a lot of calisthenics but very little beauty or truth or whatever it is the movie is going for.
Will Michael succumb and prove Joanna correct in her suspicions? Will Alex's French accent conquer all? Do you care? I didn't.
Massy Tadjedin's intimate directorial debut takes a spare, thoughtful approach to relationships.
The actors try their best to transcend the flimsy script and unappealing direction, but ultimately the movie offers a mostly hollow experience that delivers a night that you will struggle to remember.
A well-acted, intellectually ambitious and emotionally honest roundelay of enticement. The film stands out as a rare example of a work more interested in evoking universal thoughtfulness than telling its audience what to think.
Last Night develops into a provocative (if slightly anti-climactic) tryst.
The film is as shiny and thin as a coat of nail varnish, but beguilingly photographed...
An hour and a half of pan-American todger-teasing.
The word sexy is horribly overused. When it comes to this pair, though, it's the only word that will do.
It's quite enjoyable, and the ending is very good -- I just didn't believe a moment of it.
While it's initially hard to care much about characters this privileged, the emotions and situations are ones we can all relate to.
A glossy melodrama that turns a gossip column premise into an earnest, well-acted rumination on modern relationships.
All in all, this is a low-key affair, but its strength is in the keen observation of how relationships develop.
It's a little slow and not a great deal happens, but it's no real hardship watching beautiful people for 90 minutes.
A good-looking, tightly-scripted and ever-so-slightly superficial drama about a married couple on the brink of infidelity.
A small-scale, indulgent but worthwhile movie from writer-director Massy Tadjedin about infidelity, jealousy and the quarter-life crisis.
Leaves you to fill in the gaps, but you won't care enough to bother.
Whether you care about her characters or not (and you won't), Tadjedin does at least keep you guessing as to who will take the moral high ground come the end.
Audience Reviews for Last Night
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- Joanna Reed: I can't do any more then look him in the eye.
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- Joanna Reed: In the middle of most nights when I can't sleep, I still replay you.
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- Joanna Reed: She's pretty. You never mentioned that!
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- Joanna Reed: Geography, and timing.
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