With true insights in short supply, the on-the-nose material fails to seduce.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
Given how prominent the postcard sultriness of her backdrop is compared with the story's emotional ping-pong, all she ends up with is a kinder, chicer Adrian Lyne movie.
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Knightley and Canet make a far more compelling pair. As they wander through the city after hours, doing nothing more than talking, they generate the kind of romantic heat that's all too rare onscreen.
The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt
Last Night is a sex tease, but that makes it sound more exciting than it ever becomes.
Suspenseful though it is, the movie is quiet to the point of being sleepy, and Worthington is simply not working out as a screen star.
The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
Nominally a story about sex, lies and faithfulness, Last Night is more truly a cautionary tale about mousetrap narratives.
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
Last Night is on to something fascinating. It meditates on the meaning of adultery: the purposes it serves, beyond sex.
Beautifully shot and reeking with style, Last Night is as slow as sorghum; nothing ever really happens.
An aptly gorgeous-looking Manhattan meller whose quartet of sexy actors proves no less attractive than the well-mounted picture as a whole.