Overnight: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 0 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 77 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

67

Anyone who has ever spent five minutes dreaming about what it might be like to become a famous Hollywood director will experience a heady sense of schadenfreude.
Full Review » 8 years ago
A.O. Scott New York Times (Top Critic)

40

This documentary tells the story of Troy Duffy, a bartender in Los Angeles who became a minor celebrity when Miramax offered him $1 million for a screenplay.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Michael O'Sullivan Washington Post (Top Critic)

It's a fascinating cautionary tale.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Wesley Morris Boston Globe (Top Critic)

75

Duffy is made into such a consistently awful person that you're seduced into loathing him, even though it's hard to believe he's not putting us on.
Full Review » 7 years ago
J. Hoberman Village Voice (Top Critic)

Even a Slobodan like Weinstein would find Duffy's feature-length monologue grim going.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Jack Mathews New York Daily News (Top Critic)

63

If you're curious, you can rent The Boondock Saints on video, without stirring the embers of Duffy's ego.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Logan Hill New York Magazine (Top Critic)

The latest entry in the ever-expanding Harvey Weinstein demonology, this jittery documentary is as raw as the filmmakers' rattled nerves.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

75

Call it Project Red Light.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Robert K. Elder Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

75

As much a film about Hollywood as it is about obsessive personalities, Overnight achieves the dual feat of making us deeply dislike Duffy while we still root for him.
Full Review » 8 years ago
J. R. Jones Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

75

If this documentary finds an audience I wouldn't be surprised to see Duffy make a comeback as an actor, playing the heavy in low-budget action movies. He certainly gives a jaw-dropping performance here.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Jeff Strickler Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

63

It's like watching a runaway train race down a mountain: We know that a crash is coming; we just don't know how many casualties there will be.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)

50

While the film follows Duffy's business disasters and blusterings, it never really offers much depth on either its central subject or his posse.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Ken Eisner Variety (Top Critic)

Even as a tragic hero, Duffy's a bully and a bore.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

75

It exerts a certain train-wreck fascination.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

80

The story of the neither late nor great Troy Duffy would make the perfect film-school graduation gift.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Michael Rechtshaffen Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

A quintessential Hollywood story that might have just as easily been called Karma.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)

75

[An] unflinching depiction of a would-be Tarantino turning himself into chopped liver.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

60

It's an unacknowledged indictment of a system of agents, managers, hangers-on and production executives that automatically equates arrogance and bad-boy behavior with bottomless talent, no questions asked.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Jarrod Walker FilmFocus

80

Full Review » 4 years ago
Nathan Rabin AV Club

Tony Montana and Mark Brian Smith's acidic, vitriolic takedown of Duffy boasts the abrasive intensity of a migraine headache and the depth and scope of a bona fide American tragedy.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Wendy Mitchell Film4

Duffy's story is a potentially notable one, but this documentary's amateur production values and the man's grating personality make it not-so-enjoyable watching.
Full Review » 4 years ago
David Fear Time Out New York

A portrait of Hollywood hubris extraordinaire.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Shane Burridge rec.arts.movies.reviews

For Duffy, watching this film must be like seeing a scab peeled off
Full Review » 5 years ago
Ben Walters Time Out

A compulsive, cautionary tale about a man whose self-trumpeted 'deep cesspool of creativity' seems destined to remain undredged.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Louis Proyect rec.arts.movies.reviews

The "next Quentin Tarantino" crashes and burns
Full Review » 6 years ago