Dimitriades gives an impassioned performance, but the sleaze quickly grows monotonous.

| Apr 19, 2022

... the movie demonstrates just how hard coming out can be, especially for those more at war with themselves than with the culture around them.

| Oct 3, 2017

Director Ana Kokkinos has an eye for local color but spends little time developing the supporting characters.

| Apr 1, 2010

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 11, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 6, 2005

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 2, 2005

In a way, the film is a kissing cousin to the 1960s kitchen sink dramas of the British cinema and the working-class angst of German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

| Feb 24, 2005

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 24, 2005

| Original Score: B | Apr 3, 2002

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 19, 2002

Anyone of any generation who has ever felt at odds with his or her environment can identify with the characters in Head On.

| Feb 7, 2001

The film's close is grim and ambivalent, a choice that would be commendable if the movie had not so stubbornly held the same dour tone for two hours already, and if Ari weren't as boring as he is bored.

| Jan 1, 2000

There are some powerful moments in this rambling day-in-the-life odyssey.

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

Kinetic, at times shocking, and -- as the title suggests -- constantly in your face, this is a film that may be narrow in scope but is awfully big in heart.

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

Strains so desperately for a tragic kitchen-sink realism that in several crucial scenes the movie loses its grip and escalates into strident melodrama.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Head On crashes rights into your gay expectations and drags them down into the gutter. Powerful forces are at work here. You won't go home laughing. No way.

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

A film more easily admired than enjoyed, but there is much to admire in this bold, unsettling film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Although Head On has a certain rude power, it's definitely not a date flick.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 1, 2000

Its missteps and excesses aside, Head On is a promising feature film debut for Kokkinos.

| Jan 1, 2000

Ari comes off as little more than a self-centered, bigoted layabout, contemptuous of anyone who works for a living and a trial to his family.

| Jan 1, 2000