The Adventures of Priscilla is a musical, a comedy of gay manners and a daring comment on the price of being different in a hostile world.

| Dec 19, 2024

A very human drama, well acted, and very good fun!

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 21, 2023

The core of Stephen Elliott’s movie about three drag queens on a no-hope road trip from Sydney to Alice Springs is a warm-hearted tale about yearning for family.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 2023

Priscilla is more gay-positive than the 90-some percent of movies that ignore gays completely or put us down. It returns glamour to the screen as only drag queens can do -- outrageously and preposterously.

| May 8, 2023

The ending is cozy and unrealistic, but one can appreciate Elliot’s wanting to make a jolly piece of gay pop.

| Original Score: B | Aug 31, 2022

While this concept has definite fun appeal, the movie lacks follow-through.

| Apr 4, 2022

The director steers his way between crudity and heartbreak with the utmost skill.

| Apr 4, 2022

For the 90 minutes when it isn't stumbling, it's flying high on glitter and glam.

| Aug 18, 2020

It's a tremendous film that was ahead of its time on LGBT issues and, in some ways, is ahead of ours.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 7, 2019

The true heart of the movie, though, is Terence Stamp. He may be a little stiff in the show routines but, offstage, he's a revelation, giving a performance of near-perfect restraint and dignity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2018

Tremendous fun, with a deliciously sugar-coated message, this is the closest the cinema has come to a proper musical in years.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2018

On the whole, though, it is funny and compassionate, silly and sweet.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 22, 2018

Outrageous and giddy, the main characters in this movie make The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert a summer entertainment that won't soon be forgotten.

| Aug 22, 2018

To its credit, whenever things get too treacly, Priscilla knows enough to break out those frocks and get the show in gear. That is entertainment for sure.

| Aug 22, 2018

Not everything works equally well in this road movie, but writer-director Stephan Elliott keeps things watchable.

| Aug 22, 2018

Fabulous and emotive.

| Sep 15, 2017

I wasn't prepared for the generosity and gorgeousness with which Aussie writer-director Stephan Elliott turn this most unlikely road picture into something arresting -- if a tad sentimental -- in its naive vision of a perfectly tolerant world.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011

The plot of Priscilla isn't as important as the outlandish, wicked dialogue , the wild costumes and makeup, and the general high spirits of the entire enterprise.

| Jul 6, 2010

It's a road movie that's anything but typical or traditional.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 10, 2008

Where else are you going to see General Zod, Agent Smith and the guy from Memento as drag queens stranded in the Australian Outback?

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 10, 2007