Cruising

R18+
1980
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102 mins
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From director William Friedkin (The Exorcist). Al Pacino stars as young police officer sent undercover into New York's underground, S&M... More

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Cruising | Ratings & Reviews

"It's a lurid, twisted film that brings you into its world and completely works you over."

San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco Chronicle

"Opening with some powerful moments, Cruising soon drifts into bloody Village People-type caricature."

Time OutTime Out

"The psychosexual dynamic of Cruising is certainly questionable - deliberately so, to some extent - though in chalking up violent homoerotic impulses to unresolved daddy issues, the movie may be a greater insult to the intelligence of psychoanalysts than to the sensibilities of (the gay community)."

Village VoiceVillage Voice

"Viewed from almost three decades' distance, Cruising now looks like a masterly work of psychological disorientation, guilty only of a certain insensitivity - in putting the most extreme imaginable example of gay sexual subculture into a mainstream film - but innocent of any homophobic intention."

SalonSalon

"Its gamy images inside the leather and S&M gay bars along the Greenwich Village waterfront are both busy and dark."

New York Daily NewsNew York Daily News

"Taking away the kissing, caressing and a few bloody killings, Friedkin has no story..."

VarietyVariety

"The follow-through's pretty weak, trailing off into some artsy ambiguity that damaged the film's commercial chances."

Chicago ReaderChicago Reader

"This detective melodrama has something to offend almost everyone."

Time MagazineTime Magazine

"What we're left with is a movie without the courage to declare itself."

Roger EbertRoger Ebert

"William Friedkin's Cruising is a work of art."

Boston GlobeBoston Globe

"Cruising does not demonise homosexuality in general... rather it exposes the contradictions and potential dangers of any self-loathing gay man who turns his internalised homophobia violently upon himself and his own."

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times

Cruising | Details

Rating
R18+,
Runtime
102
Genre
Drama
Country of origin
USA, Germany

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