All About Eve while "Harrison's Reports" called it "a fascinating, continually absorbing story about Broadway theatrical people, given a mature treatment and penetrated with realistic dialogue and flashes of slick, sardonic humor." John McCarten of "The New Yorker" called it "a thoroughly entertaining movie." Writing in 2000, film critic Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun Times" praised the film, saying Bette Davis' character "veteran actress Margo Channing in "All About Eve" was her greatest role." Boxoffice.com stated that it "is a classic of the American cinema – to this day the quintessential depiction of ruthless ambition in the entertainment industry, with legendary performances
About Last Night (2014 film) film would pass but fall short of the similar film "Think Like a Man" (2012), which grossed . The "Los Angeles Times" said the initial reviews for "About Last Night" were "largely positive" and better than those for Hart's film "Ride Along", which was released the previous month. It reported that critics found the film "pretty satisfying, if rather familiar" and that the reviews, including negative ones, highlighted in particular "the comic relief of Hart and Hall". The film review website Metacritic surveyed and assessed 20 reviews as positive, 9 as mixed, and 1 as negative. It gave an aggregate