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Quentin Crisp

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A Handful of Dust (1988) 83% “There is much to recommend in A Handful of Dust -- impressive manorial interiors and chilly English landscapes, [and] faultlessly articulated lines... but it remains a misguided venture; it has been impossible to impose upon the plot a cinematic shape.” – Christopher Street May 7, 2024 Full Review Big Business (1988) 52% “This is easily the most enjoyable film that we have seen since Down and Out in Beverly Hills.” – Christopher Street May 7, 2024 Full Review Big Top Pee-wee (1988) 36% “In reducing its narrative to the merest skeleton, I am not being unfair to Big Top Pee-wee; in fact, I am doing it a favor. Its weakness lies in its innumerable digressions and its lack of any clearly defined intention - its absence of a consistent style.” – Christopher Street May 7, 2024 Full Review Beaches (1988) 42% “In Beaches, Miss Midler and Miss Hershey wrangle, forgive, embrace, part, and reunite until I found their antics difficult to comprehend, difficult to believe, and finally difficult to bear.” – Christopher Street May 7, 2024 Full Review Prick Up Your Ears (1987) 92% “What the film lacks is unity and a gradual quickening of pace. Although we know from the stunning beginning what the climax will be, we do not feel that we are being drawn relentlessly toward it.” – Christopher Street May 7, 2024 Full Review 1984 (1984) 75% “The film is faultlessly acted by the entire cast and the settings are perfectly photographed in the kind of lighting that prevails on Waterloo or any of the main-line railway stations in London.” – Christopher Street May 7, 2024 Full Review The Big Chill (1983) 69% “The film is as disappointing as being alive, but I must hastily add that it is very carefully prepared for the screen; at all times, it looks natural and the acting is superb.” – Christopher Street May 7, 2024 Full Review Tootsie (1982) 91% “Highly enjoyable in spite of certain weakness.” – Christopher Street May 7, 2024 Full Review Elena and Her Men (1956) 71% “I have no objection to frivolity, but there is something slightly annoying about this kind of film.” – Christopher Street May 7, 2024 Full Review Pink Floyd - The Wall (1982) 73% “The scenes of violence are marvelously put together. It is hard to realize that we are watching fiction... However, although The Wall is horrifying, it is not lurid; we are never allowed to derive from this film any satisfaction for our kinkiness.” – Christopher Street May 7, 2024 Full Review Mask (1985) 93% “With this rather hazy material, Cher works wonders. Around the vagueness of the story, she weaves her own personal mystery.” – Christopher Street May 6, 2024 Full Review Heartburn (1986) 48% “If anything saves Heartburn from disaster, it is the occasional visually comic surprise and a few very funny lines.” – Christopher Street May 6, 2024 Full Review Swann in Love (1984) 56% “The other strong asset of this movie is the acting... At the beginning of this century, the upper classes seem to have behaved with extreme formality and complete casualness at the same time. The film captures this strange mixture perfectly.” – Christopher Street May 6, 2024 Full Review Steaming (1985) 36% “Steaming enjoyed a long run on the London stage but did less well here. It will be a pity if the movie suffers a similar fate.” – Christopher Street May 6, 2024 Full Review Law of Desire (1987) 100% “The plot of Law of Desire is positively labyrinthine... It is easy for the audience to lose its way, but I must admit that as soon as the police become involved, momentum does increase to a very exciting pace.” – Christopher Street May 6, 2024 Full Review Outrageous Fortune (1987) 58% “A movie must be described as good not necessarily because it gives you what you hoped to see but if it delivers what it promises. Outrageous Fortune does this and by this standard can hardly be criticized.” – Christopher Street May 6, 2024 Full Review Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) 86% “The climax of the film is absolutely stunning; it has become the story of a young man whose very weakness drives him to heroic action, like a Graham Greene novel but kinky instead of sacred.” – Christopher Street May 6, 2024 Full Review The Dresser (1983) 100% “Outside of documentaries made at the time, I have never seen a picture that creates in such detail the bleakness of England during the Second World War.” – Christopher Street May 6, 2024 Full Review Too Outrageous! (1987) “The picture’s chief asset... is the presence of Mr. Russell. He has an enigmatic personality and veiled eyes that never quite look at anything. This provides a fascinating contrast to his highly concentrated stage image.” – Christopher Street May 1, 2024 Full Review Hope and Glory (1987) 96% “The acting, both by the children and the adults, is very good, and the art direction or, perhaps, the photography, is faultless.” – Christopher Street May 1, 2024 Full Review Don Juan DeMarco (1995) 72% “Mr. Brando is now a picturesque ruin, but he is just as magnetic as of old.” – Christopher Street May 26, 2022 Full Review The Pelican Brief (1993) 54% “The movie has a foolish ending, but it is worth seeing.” – Christopher Street May 26, 2022 Full Review Short Cuts (1993) 95% “Short Cuts is a long film, but it is not boring because the cast of characters is so numerous and the incidents so varied.” – Christopher Street May 26, 2022 Full Review Naked Tango (1991) “More double-dealing, more mayhem, more tangoing, until... even the audience is moribund.” – Christopher Street May 26, 2022 Full Review Miller's Crossing (1990) 93% “It held my interest from the first frame to the last.” – Christopher Street May 26, 2022 Full Review
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