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Last Night

R

Released May 6, 2011

1 hr. 32 min.

Drama

Romance

List

54%

72 Reviews

Tomatometer

46%

10,000+ Ratings

Audience Score

Joanna (Keira Knightley) and Michael Reed (Sam Worthington) are a happily married couple. However, the fate of their marriage rests on how each responds to temptation during a night apart. Michael goes away on a business trip with an attractive colleague named Laura (Eva Mendes), whose outer beauty masks a deep loneliness. Slightly jealous, Joanna encounters a former flame (Guillaume Canet) and agrees to meet him for drinks, but the innocent date may become something more.

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Critics Consensus

Last Night doesn't opt for easy answers, but the framework and characters overall are too slight and plain to be compelling.

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gemma h

Brilliant. Very thought-provoking. I recommend to people who like to think and take an interest in the value of relationships and their foundations.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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ella t

What a hidden gem. One of my favourite love stories.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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isla s

To me, this seemed a somewhat predictable film, in terms of the plot development. I thought it must surely be based on a play but when I looked it up online, it seems it isn't. The performances are ok but its not exactly a memorable, certainly not a stand out, film and overall I'd say its ok but no more. I wouldn't go out of your way to see this, perhaps unless your a particularly big fan of Keira Knightley perhaps. Eva Mendes is ok in it too but there's little else that especially appealed to me. Its very much a film that I felt was/is aimed at upper middle class people, which is centered on morality. It made me think somewhat of the film Closer, starring Jude Law. Its not an awful film as such but its just not particularly...good either, so I wouldn't especially recommend it as such, no.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

You will be haunted by this (in a good way) for days after viewing ...

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Audience Member

I love Kiera Knightley but this is one of the most uninteresting films I have ever seen. I didn't even mean to watch this I got mixed up with another film for my film class. Boring in dialogue, diversity, visuals, story, the whole thing literally was the most difficult to watch movie I have ever sat through, simply because it felt like I was dragged along to a business party where everyone hates both each other and their jobs.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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Audience Member

So boring. Thought it was a nice movie to watch in a friday night, but it was a choice to regret. Lame characters and predictable story.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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Massy Tadjedin

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Keira Knightley

Joanna

Sam Worthington

Michael

Eva Mendes

Laura

Guillaume Canet

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Candice Frederick

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Slickly written and finely acted, Last Night is at its core a character study.

Rated: A

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Lisa Schwarzbaum

Entertainment Weekly

Rated: A-

Sep 7, 2011

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Philip French

Guardian

The film is as shiny and thin as a coat of nail varnish, but beguilingly photographed...

Jun 5, 2011

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Marya E. Gates

Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack)

Asks you to contemplate is an affair of the body more of a betrayal or one of the heart?

Feb 13, 2024

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Martín Rodríguez

En Filme

If the conflict isn't entirely intriguing, the script manages to generate tension... [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 3/5

Feb 1, 2023

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

The movie doesn’t give us the characters we need to really emotionally invest in this type of story.

Rated: 2.5/5

Aug 23, 2022

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Synopsis

Joanna (Keira Knightley) and Michael Reed (Sam Worthington) are a happily married couple. However, the fate of their marriage rests on how each responds to temptation during a night apart. Michael goes away on a business trip with an attractive colleague named Laura (Eva Mendes), whose outer beauty masks a deep loneliness. Slightly jealous, Joanna encounters a former flame (Guillaume Canet) and agrees to meet him for drinks, but the innocent date may become something more.

Director: Massy Tadjedin
Executive Producer: Buddy Enright, Christophe Riandee
Screenwriter: Massy Tadjedin
Distributor: Tribeca Film
Production Co: Gaumont, Nick Wechsler
Rating: R (Some Language)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 6, 2011, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 1, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $99.0K

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