The Long Kiss Goodnight 1996

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: Mr. Black's screenplay is mean-spirited, but it earns its keep with sharp, sarcastic dialogue and ingenious ways of setting up this story. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Frankly, if I had to see either Harlin-Davis movie again, I'd opt for the klutzy unpleasantness of Cutthroat Island over the efficient if equally stupid unpleasantness of this 1996 release. Read more

Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly: Harlin and Davis don't seem to realize that the results aren't refreshingly revisionist - they're eye-avertingly embarrassing. Read more

David Ansen, Newsweek: The Long Kiss Goodnight is the fall's best summer movie. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: When the smoke finally clears for the final credits, we may have had a tolerably good time, but there's no lingering satisfaction. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I liked it in the same way I might like an arcade game: It holds your attention until you run out of quarters, and then you wander away without giving it another thought. Read more

Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle: With square-jawed grimaces and big guns, Geena Davis could be a convincing two-fisted bullet-spraying action hero -- if only she had a convincing movie in which to be one. Read more

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Like the heroine, the movie has two personalities that smartly coexist. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: The only saving graces are Davis's stripped-down, mean-as-a-wildcat portrayal of the Uzi-toting Charly, and Jackson's engagingly ineffectual turn. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: "The Long Kiss Goodnight" has a jokey good time with its outlandish pyrotechnics and offbeat character interplay. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: There's an excessive amount of excess -- a mind-numbing plurality of firearm battles, vehicular explosions and brutally frank sexual talk. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: [A] quip-filled but mean-spirited slugfest. Read more