Critic Reviews
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Metascore
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positive
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mixed
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Big Night's beauty is the fact that it is about passion.
100
It is one of the most beautifully staged American movies in a very long time.
100
By the end of the movie, we have been through an emotional and a sensual wringer, in a film of great wisdom and delight.
100
The real feast is in the mix of characters, each so finely and unschmaltzily delineated in a script so confident and controlled that even the most passing of participants comes alive.
89
Big Night is, in a word, delicious.
88
In addition to their deft skill with light drama, the directors understand well-placed humor, and throw just the right amount of comedy into the mix to make Big Night fun without turning it into an outright farce.
88
A robustly imaginative sleeper
88
May not have the size and grandeur of some of the biographical and political epics being released this fall, but I defy you to find a better written, more honest -- or yes, more satisfying and delicious -- movie this year. [27 September 1996, Friday, p.C]
80
It's so good, so jam-packed with delights, that it leaves you gorged -- and bemoaning the fatty glop that passes for moviemaking these days.
80
A movie that is both as real as food on the table and as hauntingly evanescent as its taste on one's tongue.
