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80
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Critic Score

86
Critics' score based on 10 reviews.
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Terrific guy flick acted by a new breed of actors of thier time... excellent! Great for a Saturday night "dinner and a movie" relaxing... ning at home Full Review

February 15,2010
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Levinson's dialogue feels fresh and improvised, yet it hits its mark every time, and the performances he gets are complex and original (particularly from Mickey Rourke, who plays a lothario with a late-blooming conscience) - enough so that Levinson's occasional forced "cinematic" effects cause barely a ripple in the smooth, naturalistic surface.Full Review

Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader

Diner isn't lavish or long, but it's the sort of small, honest, entertaining movie that should never go out of style, even in an age of sequels and extravaganzas.Full Review

Janet Maslin
The New York Times

The film is wonderfully cast and played, right down to the bit player (Ralph Tabakin) who shops suspiciously for a TV set: "I saw Bananzo and it was not for me."Full Review

Richard Corliss
Time

A serious and funny and subtle work - a work of art - that was easy to confuse with exploitation teeny-bopper quickies because it did what the quickies had tried to do. But Diner did it right. [22 Apr 1982]Full Review

Jay Scott
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Diner is often a very funny movie, although I laughed most freely not at the sexual pranks but at the movie's accurate ear, as it reproduced dialogue with great comic accuracy.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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