Universal Pictures | Release Date: July 20, 1988 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
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3
Negative:
0
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Midnight Run is two films. One is a succession of bright, razor-edge, nutty dialogues between two men. The other is the plot that keeps them together, which is stale and full of boring violent-comic action. [29 Aug 1988]
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Mr. De Niro and Mr. Grodin are lunatic delights, which is somewhat more than can be said for the movie, whose mechanics keep getting in the way of the performances. [20 July 1988, p.C15]