 In 2016, Kristen Stegemoeller, writing for "[[Paper (magazine)|Paper]]", listed it as number 8 in a list of "Shakespeare's Teen Movies" based solely on a plot description found on [[Wikipedia]].And in a 2015 article "In Defense of Go As A Rave Movie" (referring to "[[Go (1999 film)|Go]]" (1999)), Genna Rivieccio describes "A Midsummer Night's Rave" as among the "classics" of rave movies.In 2006, Carolyn Jess-Cooke described "A Midsummer Night's Rave" and "[[Rave Macbeth]]" as exemplars of the "McShakespeare", a term she creates and situates relative to Harvey Greenberg's "trope of unmitigated narrative damnation"