"It's his most-un-Scorsese-like film, and it's an overlooked gem."
— Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
"The result is a delirious and challenging comedy, a postmodern Ulysses in Nighttown."
— Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
"This unpredictable and hilarious paranoid fantasy is a contemporary, urban "Wizard of Oz," peopled by punk artists and Yuppie vigilantes instead of wicked witches and Munchkins."
— Julie Salamon, Wall Street Journal
"After Hours is dazzling movie-making; you could get a giddy kick just from cinematographer Michael Ballhaus' shot as a set of house keys floats down toward the camera, tossed from a top-floor apartment."
— Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times