Midnight Run Critic Reviews

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San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalleAdd Critic to Favorites

Midnight Run has thrills, excellent performances, touching moments, slick plotting, lively dialogue, plenty of laughs, beautiful locations and finely detailed direction. It's an across-the-board success, the best new movie I've seen in years. [20 July 1988]Read the full review

Variety | Staff (Not Credited)Add Critic to Favorites

One of the most entertaining, best executed, original road pictures ever.Read the full review

USA Today | Donna BrittAdd Critic to Favorites

The film is a bit long because Brest wants to give you time to believe Walsh and Mardukas' inevitable friendship. We do. And Run adds poignancy without detracting from the action. [20 July 1988]Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

Whoever cast De Niro and Grodin must have had a sixth sense for the chemistry they would have; they work together so smoothly, and with such an evident sense of fun, that even their silences are intriguing.Read the full review

Washington Post | Desson ThomsonAdd Critic to Favorites

Robert De Niro is one extended pleasure in Midnight Run -- a real actor putting his considerable talent to work in a well-scripted comedy. And he's more than complemented by Charles Grodin, a brilliant comic performer who has been wasted up to now in small roles or lousy movies. [22 July 1988]Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Michael WilmingtonAdd Critic to Favorites

There isn't a single performance in Midnight Run that doesn't have a pulse, that doesn't show the actors at their best or near-best, especially De Niro. [20 July 1988]Read the full review

Washington Post | Hal HinsonAdd Critic to Favorites

Too routinely formulaic to be anything more than modestly diverting. But as modest diversions go it cruises along at a reasonably brisk pace and, in the smaller details -- the off-in-the-margins doodling -- it has its rewards. [20 July 1988]Read the full review

The New York Times | Vincent CanbyAdd Critic to Favorites

Mr. De Niro and Mr. Grodin are lunatic delights, which is somewhat more than can be said for the movie, whose mechanics keep getting in the way of the performances. [20 July 1988, p.C15]Read the full review

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