54
Miramax Films | Release Date: August 28, 1998 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
33
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
9
Negative:
9
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50
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
It's a noble effort, but aficionados and the mildly interested are recommended to seek out VH-1's excellent Studio 54 documentary in lieu of this shallow morality play. Read full review
50
Dallas ObserverM. V. Moorhead
In the end narration, Shane gripes that the new corporate owners who took over Studio 54 after Rubell and Schrager's crash made the club "safe and boring." But that's exactly what Christopher has done to 54. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Amusing and holds interest largely thanks to its re-creation of a glitzy, flamboyant era, not to mention its soundtrack of disco songs that sound a lot better today than 20 years ago. Read full review
50
TimeRichard Corliss
All glitz, no glory. [7 September 1998]
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
"Saturday Night Fever" with designer drugs and duds. Read full review
50
VarietyEmanuel Levy
Director Mark Christopher gives the picture a brisk pace and a colorful, party-like mood that makes the experience painless and sporadically even enjoyable. Read full review
50
Washington PostStephen Hunter
The movie is almost completely uninteresting on the story level but fascinating as a work of imagined reconstruction and anthropology and as a study of the theory and practice of Studio 54. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
There's a glimmer of what the film might have been, though, in the performance of Mike Myers, who plays Studio co-owner Steve Rubell, with his sweaty thinning hair and look-at-me-I-got-class Lacoste shirts, as a vengeful gargoyle presiding over a kingdom of beauty he can rule but never join. Read full review
40
EmpireCaroline Westbrook
It looks attractive, and is enlivened somewhat by the soundtrack's obligatory disco dinosaurs, but those expecting any real insight into the 70s club scene will come away hugely disappointed. Read full review
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