Set, as it is, during the especially turbulent 1960s and 1970s, and continuing into the 1980s, C.R.A.Z.Y. does an exceptional job of capturing the zeitgeist of those periods.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 30, 2022

Told over the course of three decades with big familial moments set around Christmas, the film also includes a lot of music from each era, thanks to director Jean-Marc Vallée...

| Dec 8, 2021

C.R.A.Z.Y. is a film of intelligence and integrity, with a great pop soundtrack.

| May 7, 2020

A nostalgia exercise, correctly shot and performed. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Feb 13, 2020

It is the story of a boy growing up in Montreal in the Sixties and Seventies, and it's quite marvellous

| Apr 1, 2019

Playing the charismatic, androgyne hero in his older incarnation, Marc-André Grondin is surprisingly able to hold his own in his lifelong power struggle with veteran Michel Côté's ultracool patriarch.

| Oct 17, 2018

It is filled with quietly hilarious, but also cringe-making moments.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 17, 2018

This is the kind of film that haunts us long after we leave the cinema. It's packed with such a variety of emotional highs and lows--from Zac's violent self-loathing to his spiritual quest for meaning.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 17, 2018

It's a warm and delightful film, punctuated with sharp wit, and full of possibility.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 17, 2018

C.R.A.Z.Y. is a sharply written, beautifully acted and thoroughly enjoyable film that's both moving and frequently hilarious.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 17, 2018

Fantastic performances, sharp wit and a raw honesty breathe new life into the rites-of-passage drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 17, 2018

There's a warmth and detail to the way father, mother and son are depicted and explored.

| Sep 17, 2018

An intimate story told on an epic scale, C.R.A.Z.Y. is a delightfully satisfying mix of the particular and the universal, with enough dark shading to ward off sentimentality.

| Sep 17, 2018

There is a bit of shaggy dog quality to the film, it meanders all over the damn place, but it has charm to boot, and a marvelous soundtrack, that director Jean-Marc Valle secured through pure bloody-minded tenaciousness.

| Aug 24, 2017

Though not the revelation some over-zealous critics would have you believe-the movie is essentially plotless-C.R.A.Z.Y. is a well-constructed, highly rewatchable study of a regular, middle-class family.

| Jul 11, 2016

A warm-hearted if predictable rites-of-passage movie, enlivened by some surreal flourishes and a stomping glam soundtrack.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2008

If Brokeback Mountain was the bleak gay drama of 2005 that all audiences could enjoy, then another 2005 feature, the equally heterosexually enjoyable C.R.A.Z.Y., puts the colour back in the adjective 'gay'.

| Jul 18, 2007

C.R.A.Z.Y. succeeds by touching on the kinds of events that could happen to any of us.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 24, 2007

It will exhaust your eyes, your ears, and your mind.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2006

The French Canadian import is also wildly entertaining in its views of Catholicism, music and especially family.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 10, 2006