54 1998

Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle: The party never gets started. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: Except for Myers, and for many he will make the movie worth watching. He's absolutely shagadelic and completely unexpected. This should have been his movie. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: You see garbage bags filled with cash, a lot of avid cocaine snorting and fleeting glimpses of Warhol and Truman Capote, but it all feels ho-hum. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Decadence has rarely looked so pathetic, lethargic and dispiriting as it does in this listless film. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The movie is flat, logy, and amateurish -- a Scotch - tape- and - balsa - wood job. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: The triteness comes thick and fast. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The trite story is a letdown because it traverses a predictable arc. Read more

Charles Taylor, Salon.com: It's a flat, clumsy piece of filmmaking. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Silly and clumsily made. Read more

Charlotte O'Sullivan, Time Out: Myers exploits every vicious, self-hating line that comes his way. Read more

Emanuel Levy, Variety: A more critical and resonant Hollywood movie about the glorious disco culture screams to be made. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: 54 is an entertaining and surprisingly serious look at the infamous New York discotheque, with a genuine nostalgia for the late '70s and early '80s, tempered by a healthy dose of jaundice - but without a sense of condescension or superiority. Read more