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.
– Laura Miller,
Salon.com,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
[Stillman] nails his characters with perfectly heard dialogue and laconic satire.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
In its last hour, the picture becomes more clumsy and tiresome, but the stray laugh and the disco sound keep it pulsing.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
The combination of sharply-realized dialogue and infectiously energetic dance sequences keeps The Last Days of Disco from losing steam.