Last Night in Soho
Focus Features | Release Date: October 29, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 55 Critic Reviews
Positive:
35
Mixed:
16
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The IndependentGeoffrey MacnabNov 4, 2021
It is hard not to wish Wright had made an entire film set in the Soho of the Sixties rather than one that pays tribute to it through the prism of the present day. It is a pity, too, that the magnificent Taylor-Joy’s role wasn’t further foregrounded. Read full review
60
Rolling StoneDavid FearNov 1, 2021
The temptation is to wish that Wright had simply made a horror movie set in the Sixties, that he’d streamlined things a tad more and simply kept his revisionist look at the Carnaby-and-cocktails glamorous life in that bygone moment. But he’s after something a little bigger, and if Last Night in Soho comes across as being stuck in a tonal interzone, you have to admire how Wright is so intent on drawing a line between then and now. Read full review
60
The New YorkerRichard BrodyNov 1, 2021
Unlike the films of such great modern stylists as Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, and the three Ter(r)ences—Davies, Malick, and Nance—Wright’s movie offers an illustrated screenplay, in which images deliver and adorn the text rather than embody its ideas. Read full review
60
The AtlanticDavid SimsOct 29, 2021
While Wright remains exceptionally gifted at mashing up genres to create moments of real cinematic lightning, by and large, Last Night in Soho is all flash, no impact. Read full review
60
PolygonJack KingOct 29, 2021
This is certainly Edgar Wright at his Edgar Wright-iest, but even as he’s arguing against celebrating the past in Last Night in Soho, he’s celebrating it himself, in ways that are hard to escape, and at times, harder still to enjoy. Read full review
60
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeOct 29, 2021
There is both too much and too little going on. It passes the time busily, but leaves us lost in copious allusion and unfinished narrative. Read full review
60
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternOct 28, 2021
Rather than belabor the what that was chosen—the silly lather the story works up—I’ll reflect in my turn on how fine “Last Night In Soho” turns out to be when its co-stars are fully engaged in their eerily mysterious dance of identity. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawOct 28, 2021
The contemporary half of the film is for me less interesting, particularly in the overextended third act. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzOct 25, 2021
McKenzie and Taylor-Joy are both affecting as two sides of not-quite-the-same coin. Their performances are the best thing about the film, which is good — but not as good as it might have been. Read full review
60
TimeStephanie ZacharekSep 4, 2021
Last Night in Soho soars at the beginning, only to crash in the end. It’s a broken promise. Read full review
50
Little White LiesDavid JenkinsOct 27, 2021
The film is at its best when holding back details and sculpting fine character details, but the intensity is ramped up far too early and it becomes increasingly tough to take the plot seriously, or build an emotional connection with its climactic revelations. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleTrace SauveurOct 25, 2021
There’s not enough here to carry the painstaking production design and costuming – a visual feast let down by shortage of meaning. This is a movie about perception, indeed: As beautiful as it is on the outside, the inside is completely superficial. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineMark HansonSep 12, 2021
In the end, Edgar Wright isn’t particularly interested in taking aim at all that is dark in the zealotry that shapes a culture. Read full review
50
The PlaylistJessica KiangSep 4, 2021
Given all that it’s got going for it – and it has Taylor-Joy descending a night club staircase in a pink halterneck swing-hem dress and sashaying across a dancefloor while Cilla Black croons “You’re my World,” which is not nothing – why the hell isn’t it more fun? Read full review
50
VarietyGuy LodgeSep 4, 2021
Wright’s particular affections for B-movies, British Invasion pop and a fast-fading pocket of urban London may be written all over the film, but they aren’t compellingly written into it, ultimately swamping the thin supernatural sleuth story at its heart. Read full review
40
CineVueMatthew AndersonOct 27, 2021
Constructed with his trademark panache, it is bold, bracing and stylish in both its aesthetics and an outstanding retro soundtrack, but as its parallel leading ladies will discover to their peril, not all that glitters is gold. Read full review
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