Rough Night
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: June 16, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
51
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Mixed or average reviews based on 40 Critic Reviews
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11
Mixed:
26
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Total FilmJames MottramAug 23, 2017
The farcical third act, wrapped up too neatly by director Lucia Aniello, softens the blows. More edges needed. Read full review
60
TimeStephanie ZacharekJun 18, 2017
Really, as "Hangover"-style dumb entertainments go, it’s certainly good enough. Which isn’t to say it’s anything close to what what women want. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfJun 17, 2017
Given its multitalented cast, Rough Night should have committed to the darkness (originally, the screenplay’s title was Move that Body). In execution, the women are asked only for flop sweat and nervous jabbering. Party on. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJun 15, 2017
Rough Night has a couple of halfway good ideas, but they never add up to a whole. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaJun 14, 2017
Rough Night, which is like an episode of Broad City that got a blowout and smoked a pound of primo studio notes, tries to have it both ways. It wants to be a character-based lost-weekend romp, but keeps forcing itself toward increasingly ridiculous and self-consciously naughty set pieces. Read full review
60
IGNJosh LasserJun 14, 2017
Rough Night is a movie that, perhaps, is a lot like one of these parties – it manages to be remembered not as the best time ever, but fondly. Read full review
60
The GuardianBenjamin LeeJun 14, 2017
A fun night will be had, but you’ll have trouble remembering it in the morning. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsJoe DziemianowiczJun 14, 2017
At its best, the movie turns gender roles on their heads. While the girls party very hard, bride-to-be Jess’s fiance Peter (Paul W. Downs) spends his stag party tasting wine with his buds. Moreover, people can surprise themselves — and do things they don’t expect. Read full review
58
ConsequenceMichael RoffmanJun 15, 2017
Things move at such a breakneck pace and the film is so manic tonally that Rough Night winds up feeling more like a series of vignettes than an actual movie. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattJun 14, 2017
A raunchy, wildly off-the-rails farce from the team that more or less brought you Broad City. Read full review
58
The Film StageJordan RaupJun 14, 2017
While Lucia Aniello (one of many from Broad City involved here) brings a certain energy in her directorial debut and the cast do comedically click, Rough Night too often feels watered-down with a blatant disregard for basic logic, resulting in a comedy that’s ultimately more exasperating than clever. Read full review
50
New York PostSara StewartJun 15, 2017
It’s the first R-rated, woman-directed comedy in years! — here’s the rub: The funniest thing about it is the men. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireJun 15, 2017
Rough Night starts out buoyantly, and it and features some wonderfully weird moments scattered throughout. But those scenes never truly gel with the movie’s eventual life-or-death stakes. Read full review
50
USA TodayBrian TruittJun 15, 2017
At times it feels like a good thing but way too often reminds you that you’re trapped for an hour and a half. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubJun 15, 2017
It’s summer, weed is legal in California now and laughs are a scarce resource. You could do worse than Rough Night. Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter TraversJun 15, 2017
The women in Rough Night are terrific company. They never wear out their welcome. You can't say the same for the movie. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy BurrJun 15, 2017
What’s nice about this movie, actually, is that you can get a few shameless laughs out of it and then forget you saw it at all. Read full review
50
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlJun 14, 2017
The movie is glazed in flop sweat, moist with the producers’ fear that if the wildness lets up for a heartbeat, we’ll be bored. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineKenji FujishimaJun 14, 2017
To some degree, Rough Night's attention to character detail compensates for its weaknesses as a comedy. Read full review
50
Screen DailyTim GriersonJun 14, 2017
Like many would-be debaucherous evenings, Rough Night starts off with great promise, only to devolve into a series of poor decisions, regretful moments and a general sense of disappointment. Read full review
43
Paste MagazineWill LeitchJun 21, 2017
The movie is cluttered, disorganized, choppy, obvious and, at the end of the day, not even energetic enough to work up much frustration about. Read full review
42
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallJun 15, 2017
Rough Night wouldn't be fresh or funny no matter what gender it's written about or for. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisJun 21, 2017
No matter whether the cast is male, female, or somewhere in between, the absence of a well-constructed story, particularly when the humor goes south (literally), will doom any movie to quick obscurity, no matter how many d**k or p***y jokes get told. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangJun 15, 2017
The title of this strenuously crude and crotch-obsessed movie may be lazy, but it’s also pretty apt. Read full review
40
The New York TimesManohla DargisJun 15, 2017
It’s all blithely formulaic and would be more irritating if the performers — who include Zoë Kravitz and Illana Glazer — weren’t generally so appealing. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyJun 14, 2017
All the talented women here are stuck playing types rather than characters, in a strained frolic in which both the verbal humor and the physical gags too often fall flat. Read full review
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