Noir-tinged drama features a career-best performance from Jamey Sheridan.

| Feb 13, 2024

Doesn't have sellable stars or publicity fanfare, but this is one of the this years best. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 8, 2022

... it's nice to see men even acknowledging the fact that they are no more impervious to the effects of time than women, and far preferable to watching actors seeming not to notice that their female costars are now young enough to be their granddaughters.

| Feb 8, 2018

Angst-ridden didactic guy's film about the fear of being gay if one doesn't act manly.

| Original Score: B | Oct 26, 2015

While Bette Gordon may be a filmmaker of daring and a painterly hand, the eternal truths of Handsome Harry are finally what hold us.

| Feb 17, 2015

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

...works best as an actor's showcase...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 6, 2011

Handsome Harry seems a bit obvious at times (and a little clunky at others) but the performances, particularly from Jamey Sheridan, will keep you watching.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 29, 2010

Handsome Harry is a small film with more to say than its creaky exposition and formulaic plot would suggest. Frustration is perhaps the more appropriate critical response.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 29, 2010

I don't think Clint Eastwood would cast himself as a gay man, but it's easy to imagine an alternate movie universe in which Eastwood not only plays the title role but is the director of this earnest yet unstrident drama...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 10, 2010

Sheridan (who also produced) is well cast as the good-looking, rugged Harry, and his performance is certainly adequate.

Full Review | Jul 7, 2010

Like any low-budget production, Handsome Harry has some shakily staged scenes and erratic acting, but it also has wonderful moments...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 27, 2010

David has honed this script for 30 years, and every word he utters is momentous. Handsome Harry transcends its somewhat melodramatic narrative.

| Apr 19, 2010

Even with its forced dialogue and dramatically artificial set pieces, "Handsome Harry" has a certain integrity--thanks primarily to Jamey Sheridan's committed performance--that keeps you involved.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 17, 2010

Bette Gordon's film is that rarity these days, an American film which deals with mature characters facing life and the choices they've made, possessed of uncommon intelligence and subtlety.

| Apr 16, 2010

A unique story of love and regret...Exquisitely acted by an exceptional cast.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 16, 2010

Each of its miserable characters, especially Mr. Savage's Rheems, is a case study in a film that hits you like a strident polemical essay.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 16, 2010

Gay audiences -- and probably straight ones -- will see the twists coming from a mile away, but a cast this strong makes the trip worth taking anyway.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 16, 2010

While it jumps the rails at a couple of different points dramatically, Handsome Harry keeps winning you back because of Jamey Sheridan's performance.

| Apr 16, 2010

The story quietly builds to a rueful and fraught climax in which Campbell Scott does his usual exceptional work, while Harry absorbs some hard lessons.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 16, 2010