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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26
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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
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
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
38
ObserverThelma AdamsJun 20, 2017
What I don’t need is more undercooked leftovers: elevator pitches that satisfy the suits (It’s The Hangover with chicks!) because risk-averse studios don’t want to take any chances with that chick stuff and therefore create a self-fulfilling prophecy of estrogen dreck. 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
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJun 16, 2017
There’s enough variety here that everyone’s funny bone should be tickled from time-to-time. 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
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Johanna SchnellerJun 15, 2017
Tropes are necessary for comedy. But tropes alone aren’t funny. What’s funny is a singular point of view that rises up to show us what’s absurd about our embedded expectations. Until more movies starring women are allowed to be truly audacious, we’re in for a lot of rough nights at the cinema. Read full review
70
VoxGenevieve KoskiJun 15, 2017
Rough Night floats on the strength of its performances and its anything-for-a-laugh sensibility. Read full review
63
The Seattle TimesKatie WalshJun 15, 2017
The film starts off a bit rocky, as the story elements are established, but gets better and funnier as it builds, leaning into the craziness as the dominoes fall into place. 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
67
The A.V. ClubKatie RifeJun 15, 2017
To compare Rough Night to another relatively recent female-led comedy, the film incorporates its violence with less tonal whiplash than in the 2013 Sandra Bullock/Melissa McCarthy comedy "The Heat," not only because of the tone set by the hard-R dialogue, but also because the dead body jokes are more "Weekend At Bernie’s" than anything. 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
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
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
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJun 15, 2017
Rough Night doesn’t begin to cover it. It’s also “Painfully Unfunny Night,” “Contrived Night,” “Unsurprising Plot Twist Night” and also, “How Do These Dimwits Ever Make It Through Any Night”? 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
63
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJun 15, 2017
Rough Night is good one minute, weak or stilted or wince-y the next, though even with seriously uneven pacing and inventiveness it's a somewhat better low comedy than "Snatched" or "Bad Moms," or (here's where I part company with the world) the "Hangover" pictures. Yes, even the first one. 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
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
38
Movie NationRoger MooreJun 15, 2017
Even though it rallies in its last third to manage something like comic momentum, Rough Night never recovers from the bloody death and the mess that ensues. Read full review
75
The PlaylistKimber MyersJun 14, 2017
Mixing equal parts of “The Hangover,” “Very Bad Things,” and “Bridesmaids,” Rough Night is a comedy cocktail that goes down easy. It adheres a bit too closely to the recipe established by its predecessors, but it works well enough to keep the audience laughing. 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
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
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
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
70
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoJun 14, 2017
Rough Night is a seriously funny movie led by some seriously funny ladies, but even more impressive is a mainstream comedy that relies not on cheap shocks like many who have come before. Read full review
70
VarietyOwen GleibermanJun 14, 2017
Rough Night, a bachelorette-party-from-hell thriller comedy that’s got some push and some laughs, despite its essentially formulaic nature, is a perfect example of why Hollywood needs (many) more women filmmakers. 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
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
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
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
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
83
IndieWireJude DryJun 14, 2017
We’ve yet to see if Kate McKinnon can lead a movie, but she sure as hell can steal one. She did it in “Ghostbusters,” and she did it again in Rough Night, which is surprisingly funny despite a wild premise riddled with potential pitfalls. 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
65
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeJun 14, 2017
A sloppy, untossed salad of a comedy, Rough Night survives on funny bits and a game cast. Read full review
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