LATE NIGHT

COMEDY / EMMA THOMPSON, MINDY KALING, JOHN LITHGOW / RATED M / 102 MINUTES / IN CINEMAS NOW

Aglorious celebration of being a woman in the workplace, Late Night is a hilarious delight.

While the strong-female-boss works with young-and-fresh-underling might give you serious Devil Wears Prada vibes, this is where the similarities end.

For one, Emma Thompson’s talk show host Katherine Newbury is significantly less abrasive than Miranda Priestly.

While she can be demanding and stubborn, a lot of this adds to the charm and humour of the film — particularly when Thompson’s character and Mindy Kaling’s Molly Patel are bouncing off each other — and adds urgency to the plot of Katherine fighting to maintain her role as host of Tonight with Katherine

Newberry as ratings drop.

The film can be described as a behind-the-scenes look at late night television.

The viewer experiences the difficulties of starting a job in writing for the show alongside Kaling’s Molly, who has no experience in the field and was hired as the token female in the otherwise male-dominated workplace.

From Molly sharing strong opinions on her first day to crying when rebuked, the viewer sees it all.

As much as Molly’s character is endearingly awkward at times and fantastically funny, we possibly see the most growth from Katherine Newberry herself.

From being too stubborn to change, to dedicating her all to her beloved show, to being embroiled in scandal, the character’s scenes can almost be perceptively felt by the audience.

In all, one may say Late Night is actually a beautiful look at life in general: it’s raw, it’s messy, but it’s also beautiful and rambunctiously funny.