88
A crackling good movie. [18 Dec 1992]
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
63
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Parts of the film are flatly directed...It certainly keeps the audience guessing, though, and few movies explode so many stereotypes. [31 Dec 1992]
80
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
An adroit piece of storytelling from Irish writer-director Neil Jordan that's ultimately less challenging to conventional notions about race and sexuality than it may at first seem... The three leads are first-rate.
100
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
This offbeat emotional thriller is an unusually satisfying film, intricately constructed, surely directed and splendidly acted. [25 Nov 1992]
75
San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle
It's a movie filled with surprises, including one outright kick in the head that qualifies as one of the biggest movie moments of 1992. [18 Dec 1992]
100
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
By the time The Crying Game is over, you'll never look at beauty in quite the same way.
100
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
Rea and Davidson are incomparably good in an exceptional film that is by turns darkly funny and deeply affecting. Though Jordan's control sometimes falters, it's a small price to pay for his daring.
100
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
One of a very few films that wants to do something unexpected and challenging, and succeeds even beyond its ambitions. See this film. Then shut up about it.