My Beautiful Laundrette

"As always, director Stephen Frears does a superb job of work when given a good script, and this is a very good script."

"The strength of the film is its vision -- cutting, compassionate and sometimes hilarious -- of what it means to be Asian, and British, in Thatcher's Britain."

"Fast, bold, harsh and primitive like a prodigious student film with equal parts promise and threat."

"A fascinating, eccentric, very personal movie."

"It is with some relief that we realize it isn't "about" anything; it's simply some weeks spent with some characters in a way that tells us more about some aspects of modern Britain than we've seen before."

"It's Daniel Day Lewis, taut, intelligent, erotic, who is an emerging star."

"At times puzzling due to the diverse panorama of subject matter, the film nevertheless corners touchy issues more than it flinches them."