Into the Night 1985

Vincent Canby, New York Times: A little bit of Into the Night is funny, a lot of it is grotesque and all of it has the insidey manner of a movie made not for the rest of us but for moviemakers on the Bel Air circuit who watch each other's films in their own screening rooms. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Thin and familiar. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: The film itself tries sometimes too hard for laughs and at other times strains for shock. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Maybe what the movie needed was more professional discipline and less geniality. As a rule, it's probably better to throw the party after the filming is finished. Read more

Time Out: Pfeiffer in particular takes the sort of glamorous yet preposterous part that generally defeats even the best actress and somehow contrives to make it credible every inch of the way. Read more