Average Rating: 5.3/10
Reviews Counted: 59
Fresh: 29 | 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: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 8
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
May 6, 2011 Limited
Aug 1, 2011
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Forget 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.
Tadjedin shows an intimate understanding of how couples communicate through ellipses and of all that remains unsaid even amid torrents of angry words.
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.
Engaging, sharply observed relationship drama, enlivened by strong performances from all four leads, though the fact that it constantly feels stagey and contrived is something of a distraction.
Shallow without being fun or sexy, the picture is a well-meaning but ponderous bore. The characters are dull, their ruminations tedious and uninvolving and the relationship insights banal.
Michael Reed: You can be happy and still be tempted. "Temptation can lead anywhere"Last Night is a very Woody Allen-esque film, without the Woody Allen characters. The film is all about temptation and loyalty towards the one you are with. It's a small, but effective movie on marriage. There is actually a large amount
December 11, 2011
Super Reviewer
"And I think I'd still be here, attracted to you."Emotional affairs, physical affairs, is one any worse than the other? That's one of the questions raised in Last Night, a drama about a couple that faces temptations of different kinds on a night apart from each other. Michael (Sam Worthington) spends time in the
July 7, 2010Super Reviewer
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