Diner 1982

Janet Maslin, New York Times: Movies like Diner -- fresh, well-acted and energetic American movies by new directors with the courage of their convictions -- are an endangered species. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Levinson's dialogue feels fresh and improvised, yet it hits its mark every time, and the performances he gets are complex and original. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Diner is often a very funny movie, although I laughed most freely not at the sexual pranks but at the movie's accurate ear, as it reproduced dialogue with great comic accuracy. Read more

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: The film is wonderfully cast and played. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Not a lot to it, but the sense of period is acute, the script witty without falling into the crude pitfalls that beset other adolescent comedies, and the performances are spot-on. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: For all his painstaking accuracy, Levinson has also concocted a dark and depressing period story devoid of a single person without a major problem or character flaw. Read more