About Last Night
Screen Gems | Release Date: February 14, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
62
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Generally favorable reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
20
Mixed:
9
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallFeb 12, 2014
If this was December, Kevin Hart might be in the Oscar mix, he's that good in About Last Night. Explosively good, a comedy nova who won't shut up and never should. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesFeb 12, 2014
It’s the funniest, friskiest date movie in a good long while. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonFeb 14, 2014
The film's best asset, and the thing that elevates it above the 1986 version, is how well it is cast. Read full review
75
USA TodayClaudia PuigFeb 13, 2014
Frisky fun made all the more entertaining because of the potent chemistry between its quartet of lead actors. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliFeb 13, 2014
A rare remake in that it's sufficiently different in the details to make it of interest to those familiar to the earlier endeavor. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanFeb 13, 2014
In About Last Night, Hart blows up, to hilariously oversize proportions, the eternal male desire for freedom. He’s raunch on wheels. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperFeb 13, 2014
The four leads are enormously likable and there’s still enough sharp, raunchy, sexy humor for me to recommend this version. Read full review
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchKevin C. JohnsonFeb 13, 2014
The four leads are entirely engaging including the manic Hart. Read full review
75
New York PostSara StewartFeb 12, 2014
Maybe my favorite thing about this About Last Night, though, is that it’s proof romantic comedies don’t have to be so predictable. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriFeb 17, 2014
As an honest look into relationships, it's a bust. As a straight-up comedy, though, it’s hilarious. Read full review
70
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlFeb 14, 2014
Far from a film about sharks sharking and love not working out, this About Last Night revels in friendship, fidelity, and something too rarely seen in the movies today: the idea that being young and black in Los Angeles can be glorious. Read full review
70
Film.comJenni MillerFeb 14, 2014
It’s funnier than it has any right to be, really. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckFeb 13, 2014
It's not surprising that the remake of the 1986 film About Last Night... is broader, cruder and raunchier than the original. What is surprising it that's also much, much funnier. Read full review
70
The New York TimesA.O. ScottFeb 13, 2014
Many of the funniest parts seem to arise spontaneously from Mr. Hart’s uncensored brain and fast-moving mouth. He can swerve from tears to mock outrage to anatomically detailed obscenities faster than just about any other comic performer working today, and in Ms. Hall he has found an excellent match. Read full review
63
Washington PostAnn HornadayFeb 14, 2014
About Last Night may be about Daniel and Debbie, but it’s Hart and Hall who make it worth watching. They take palatable but not exceptional cinematic hay and turn it into comic gold. Read full review
63
Rolling StonePeter TraversFeb 14, 2014
Hart is a comic fireball. Don't leave till after the final credits when he and Hall bust a few more hilarious improv moves. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneFeb 14, 2014
Kevin Hart turns an essentially crude wingman into the conscience of the film's torturous, nettled discourse on romance. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Geoff PevereFeb 13, 2014
It’s high quality sweetness, as carefully prepped and prettily presented as any of the meals, cocktails and home decorating binges partaken of our quartet of love-locked converts to the way of the heart. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsFeb 13, 2014
In a rom-com, there's no rom without the com. Hart and Hall give it their all. Read full review
63
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreFeb 12, 2014
What keeps us around until the closing credits, where Hart and Hall bust each other up, is the electrical charge between those two. They’re the Wimbledon Finals of sexy, sassy, drunken comic banter — two pros, evenly matched enough to put on a great show, even if they make us forget about the rest of the movie around them as they do. Read full review
60
Time OutKeith UhlichFeb 18, 2014
Imagine "His Girl Friday" crossed with "Armageddon" and you’ll get a sense of the unfortunate disconnect that prevents an enjoyable light entertainment from achieving rom-com nirvana. Read full review
60
VarietyPeter LabuzaFeb 13, 2014
The actors give the proceedings a mostly quick-witted repartee that prevails over the occasionally stale script. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierFeb 13, 2014
It’s playful, stable and sexy, thanks to a cast that knows how to find the sweet spots. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghFeb 12, 2014
Attractively staged and spiced through with raunch, About Last Night is still a pleasant enough romp, even if you have no intention of returning its phone calls. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Feb 12, 2014
Despite a few deviations, About Last Night is basically the same sanitized rom-com, bearing the slightest hint of resemblance to its source material. In other words, most of the perversity of Perversity has again been excised — the Chicago too. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinFeb 13, 2014
The cast does what it can with — and clearly self-improves upon — the essentially thin, at times choppy material. Read full review
50
The DissolveJen ChaneyFeb 13, 2014
Hall and Hart have appeared together in several movies, including 2012’s Think Like A Man, but have never been paired as love interests. Here, they lock into a manic, improvisational groove from minute one. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleFeb 13, 2014
Daring and gutless at the same time. It's daring in that it's a romantic movie that's willing to be coarse. It's gutless in that it refuses to paint any of its characters in a negative light, even temporarily. Read full review
40
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottFeb 14, 2014
It's all fairly standard rom-com stuff. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy BurrFeb 13, 2014
Despite a frisky soundtrack that starts off with James Brown’s “Sex Machine” — trust me, it’s downhill from there — this is the visual equivalent of Muzak. You don’t have to see it to have seen it. Read full review
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