The Crying Game

Chicago Tribune by

A crackling good movie. [18 Dec 1992]

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]

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.

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]

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]

Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

By the time The Crying Game is over, you'll never look at beauty in quite the same way.

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.

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.