Fresh
The result is a delirious and challenging comedy, a postmodern Ulysses in Nighttown.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
After Hours
When it's after midnight in New York City, you don't have to look for love, laughter and trouble. They'll all find you!
1985 · 1h 37m · R
Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Martin Scorsese
Overview
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Anxiety-ridden picture would have been pretty funny if it didn't play like a confirmation of everyone's worst fears about contemporary urban life.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
Scorsese's orchestration of thematic development, narrative structure, and visual style is stunning in its detail and fullness; this 1985 feature reestablished him as one of the very few contemporary masters of filmmaking.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Inventive film-making of the first order.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
After Hours is not, ultimately, a satisfying film, but it's often vigorously unsettling. In this season of homogenized pap, that should be read as praise.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
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