The film itself tries sometimes too hard for laughs and at other times strains for shock.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
10 Apr 2008
rotten:
Maybe what the movie needed was more professional discipline and less geniality. As a rule, it's probably better to throw the party after the filming is finished.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
rotten:
A little bit of Into the Night is funny, a lot of it is grotesque and all of it has the insidey manner of a movie made not for the rest of us but for moviemakers on the Bel Air circuit who watch each other's films in their own screening rooms.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
rotten:
Thin and familiar.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Pfeiffer in particular takes the sort of glamorous yet preposterous part that generally defeats even the best actress and somehow contrives to make it credible every inch of the way.