The Last Days of Disco: Critic Reviews

If this film ... doesn't fully rise to the lovely vibrancy of Barcelona, it still extends the witty, quizzical style of Stillman's social comedies onto inviting new terrain.

[Stillman] nails his characters with perfectly heard dialogue and laconic satire.

The pleasures in The Last Days of Disco come when the friends rant and quarrel and sulk and circle each other with an unstable mixture of need and resentment.

The combination of sharply-realized dialogue and infectiously energetic dance sequences keeps The Last Days of Disco from losing steam.

Sharp-eyed and charming.

Stillman skips the snark in favor of a sincere appreciation of his slightly lost characters.

Stilillman pulls off a unique balancing act of conveying the specificities of the cultural milieu but also maintaining a sense of universality that keeps the film from being solely about its time and place

The single finest moment in The Last Days of Disco comes at the end, during the credits... The scene is alive and exciting, and I wish there were more of that in the movie.

The ambience is wrong, failing to convey the passion, the erotic heat, and the decadence that characterized discos as the new temples; at the end, we get the strange feeling that the characters too never understood the meaning of disco to their lives.

Solid period piece with good dialogue. Standard relationship stuff, but well done.

A squawky, self-satisfied bore that isn't likely to get anyone's toes tapping.

Mr. Stillman more or less saves the movie with Josh, a sweet, muddled guy who deserves better friends than he has in this movie.

The performances by the entire ensemble are delightful, with Beckinsale and Keeslar particularly impressive. Of course, it helps that they get most of the sharpest lines.

Offers little beyond the usual Stillman prattle.

A sassy romantic comedy set in Manhattan during the l980s.