The Crying Game could well be called the Best of Neil Jordan since the Irish director has gathered together everything that's worked in his more successful films.

| Dec 14, 2023

Here is a film that takes viewers on an unpredictable journey, tackling an ambitious variety of themes and ideas without ever losing the plot.

| Dec 14, 2023

Irish director Neil Jordan's compelling new film is both a political thriller and a love story, uniting various sexual and political currents into one dreamlike narrative.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 11, 2023

It’s hard to imagine a film in which the attitudes of today have changed how it plays, compared to the time when it came out (30th anniversary)

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 13, 2022

Finding oneself in the midst of chaos forms the perfect metaphor in The Crying Game, a film that explores race, identity, sexuality, and perception during a tumultuous time in Ireland.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 26, 2022

More than anything, however, the film rests on the shoulders of Rea, who gives great dignity and humanity to perhaps the most passive film protagonist in recent memory.

| Aug 12, 2022

As LGBTQ lovers of the movies, its important to see movies like this one, flaws and all, for that very reason. Watch it, and let the debate rage on.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 20, 2022

The Crying Game searches for its characters' natures with a yearning that at once unveils yet retains mystery, not only in terms of sexual and political identity, but in the capacity for understanding and compassion.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 18, 2022

This movie is basically equivalent to the Paul McCartney and Wings song "Band on the Run" in that there are three change-ups, it keeps you guessing, and you never know quite where the movie is going land.

| Sep 15, 2019

With 20 years' perspective, it really does seem an irretrievably ropey and dated melodrama, hamstrung by any number of strange elements.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 10, 2018

Jordan takes risks in this film, but they're the wrong risks.

| Jul 24, 2018

A teasing, seductive intimacy immediately develops....The Crying Game is a very good movie indeed. It leaves one giddy.

| Feb 8, 2018

There are more surprises in 20 minutes of this incredible Irish film than there are in 20 Hollywood pictures.

| Jul 7, 2017

Powerful drama has mature sexual themes, violence.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2015

Suspenseful and emotionally complex, skillfully mixing politics with affairs of the heart, The Crying Game is something unexpected, a challenging new way to tell a very old story.

| Mar 9, 2015

Here's a movie that is difficult to outguess, difficult even to describe. The Crying Game belongs to no particular genre, though it is an absorbing thriller and a memorably offbeat love story.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 9, 2015

Seeing the film twice reveals two completely different viewer perspectives -- a kind of "before and after" syndrome -- and like any good film The Crying Game grows richer as it sinks into your thoughts.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 9, 2015

One of the year's best films.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 9, 2015

This film must be discovered as it unfolds: If anyone starts to tell you about it, hit him.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 9, 2015

The movie is at its stunning best as it comes to terms with the impact of its own most devious surprise... Still, at a certain point, it reverts to formula.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 9, 2015