There’s something too well-fed in that final moment...

| Jan 31, 2023

Bent shrewdly underscores the ways in which the camps reflected the hierarchy of prejudice that exists to this day.

| Apr 5, 2022

It's easy to see why playwright Martin Sherman's 1979 Bent was such a groundbreaking theatrical achievement and almost as easy to understand why the 1997 film adaptation failed to gain the same traction.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 21, 2019

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 9, 2008

The screen version of Sherman's play about homosexuals in Nazi Germany shows that tyro director Mathias doesn't know much about film for his erratic approach and inconsistent style bring out the play's weaknesses, though the acting is good.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Apr 18, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 4, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 24, 2004

brave, brilliantly effective movie which has the added bonus of a crinkled Mick Jagger singing in drag while swinging from a ceiling.

| Aug 19, 2003

Tired of gay rights movies and Holocaust flicks? This is both, but it still enthralls.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2003

Stylized yet substantive drama about the plight of homosexuals in the Holocaust.

| Aug 30, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 30, 2002

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 12, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 16, 2001

Among notable players, Ian McKellen from the original play 19 years ago and Mick Jagger, who plays Berlin's reigning drag queen.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 81/100 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 1, 2000