An entertaining and surprisingly serious look at the infamous New York discotheque, with a genuine nostalgia for the late '70s and early '80s.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Too often, the film is more like a soundtrack with visuals than a well constructed, fully developed motion picture.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
The movie is almost completely uninteresting on the story level but fascinating as a work of imagined reconstruction and anthropology and as a study of the theory and practice of Studio 54.Read Full Review »
There's a glimmer of what the film might have been, though, in the performance of Mike Myers, who plays Studio co-owner Steve Rubell, with his sweaty thinning hair and look-at-me-I-got-class Lacoste shirts, as a vengeful gargoyle presiding over a kingdom of beauty he can rule but never join.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Charles Taylor
It's a flat, clumsy piece of filmmaking. When Phillippe and Ward are in bed, the shots are so badly matched that I believed they were having sex, just not with each other.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
Years from now, if Mark Christopher's timid, meandering film 54 is spoken of at all, it will probably be lumped together with Whit Stillman's ''Last Days of Disco'' as one of two movies released in 1998 to bungle the same opportunity.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Decadence has rarely looked so pathetic, lethargic and dispiriting as it does in this listless film.Read Full Review »
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