It succeeds, thanks to the casting of these three macho actors, in the case of Snipes especially, seem to be winking at the audience.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 29, 2024

It’s a beautiful hymn to embracing joy, the revolutionary power of a personal style (that has deceptive substance), and the importance of acceptance — both from others and from yourself.

| Feb 13, 2024

To Wong Foo is a groundbreaking gem film that was ahead of its time in celebrating the beauty and art of drag culture. It balances campy fun with heartfelt moments, touching on serious issues like domestic abuse while humanizing its LGBTQ+ characters.

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

...complete with a final showdown where queer culture fabulously triumphs over gun culture...

| Jun 21, 2023

That there’s still a need for candy-movies like "To Wong Foo" isn’t really the movie’s fault. It seeks only to entertain, and tangentially to enlighten.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 1, 2022

While the backwater town of Snydersville is not necessarily a tourist attraction, some of the road scenes are alluring. And the actors are fab.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 8, 2022

The pity is that in this abysmal film, Mr. Swayze’s wonderful performance is wasted.

| Apr 25, 2022

To Wong Foo... is worthwhile if only for the performances, which are surprisingly good.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 18, 2021

To Wong Foo itself struck me as a confused movie. The film had its heart in the right place in that it was trying to make popular audiences like these characters. But in the process of trying to normalize them, it removed all their sexuality.

| May 20, 2020

It just felt like I wanted to see more from these characters toward the end...that's why we started on this journey in the first place...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 15, 2019

Entertaining, but some subplots weren't needed...there were payoffs that didn't make sense to me, but the actors brought their A-games.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 15, 2019

A moderately amusing effort with a marquee-challenging moniker.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 1, 2019

Drag-queen road comedy has some stereotypes, language.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 5, 2018

The film was so phony that not even the drag queens looked real.

| Original Score: C | Oct 12, 2017

For all its message about self-discovery and self-respect, this is really a 100-minute opportunity to titter at hunks in heels.

| Jun 12, 2013

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 7, 2009

A politically correct comedy about drag queens? This is the American response to the superior Aussie flick Adventures of Priscilla. Macho Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, and John Leguizamo can't lift it above the routine.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Dec 31, 2006

Leguizamo's Chi Chi is the only one who looks anything like a drag queen, let alone a woman; yet we are asked to believe that it's Swayze's breathy Vida and Snipes' squealing Noxeema who've got their stocking seams straight.

| Feb 9, 2006

I was turned on, and it really confused me.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 20, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 27, 2005