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Boogie Nights

1997

Paul Thomas Anderson

Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle ...

7.3

25,782

Drama Eddie Adams would have been just another high-school drop-out had he not met the likes of adult film director Rick Horner. Horner transforms Eddie into Dirk Diggler, a rising-star actor with a special gift. Set in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the film is a tribute to the decor, style, culture, and social attitudes of the era.

	Author	Review
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"'Boogie Nights' is the first great film about the 1970s to come out since the '70s (...) we're not just watching episodes from disparate lives but a panorama of recent social history, rendered in bold, exuberant colors"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Boogie Nights' has the quality of many great films, in that it always seems alive (...) Anderson is a skilled reporter who fills his screen with understated, authentic details (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"[It] is interestingly unexpected (...) The movie's special gift happens to be Mark Wahlberg, who gives a terrifically appealing performance"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"[It] offers a purer hit of exhilaration than any movie this year. The exhilaration comes from the outrageousness of the subject matter, and from a filmmaker working at peak virtuosity"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"What is significant, timely and, finally, hopeful about 'Boogie Nights' is the way Anderson proves that a movie can be mercilessly honest and mercifully humane at the same time."	POS
United States	Keith Phipps AV Club	"A sprawling, energetic, audacious look at the porn industry of the late '70s and early '80s (...) It's a deeply satisfying movie."	POS
United States	Emanuel Levy Variety	"Darkly comic, vastly entertaining and utterly original (...) One of the most ambitious films to have come out of Hollywood in some time."	POS
United Kingdom	Martyn Glanville BBC	"Anderson sensibly avoids using his subject matter as an excuse for endless sex scenes (...) and instead details the effects of wealth, drugs, and most interestingly new technology on the industry (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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