“Sincerity is not manipulation.”
The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

About Last Night...
Comedy · Drama · Romance · 1986
A man and woman meet and try to have a romantic affair, despite their personal problems and the interference of their disapproving friends.
About Last Night...
“Making love was easy...being in love difficult.”
Critical arithmetic
One number, for now.
Scores change. Arguments endure.
TMDB
6.1 / 10
Community rating
A man and woman meet and try to have a romantic affair, despite their personal problems and the interference of their disapproving friends.
What this film says about your taste.
Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.
The archetype split
Who fights over About Last Night...?
The Sentimental Softie
“You came to feel something, and you will.”
Read their caseThe Cool Ironist
“Feeling things is a little embarrassing.”
Read their objectionThe split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.
Nearby on the taste map.
TMDB supplies the candidates. CriticWise reorders them by craft, strangeness, prestige, emotion, and pace.
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The people responsible.
Cast & crew
Directed by
Edward Zwick
Written by
Tim Kazurinsky · Denise DeClue
Put About Last Night... on trial.
Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.
“The strings are showing.”
Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.





