| United Artists | Release Date: February 15, 1980 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Critic Reviews
Its truly unnerving quality is that its existence is a brutal reminder from the past that homosexuality is not heterosexuality, and that any attempt to reconcile the difference will only breed resentment, confusion, and violence. Or perhaps it will only lead to more lame Hallmark movies of the week like Brokeback Mountain.
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This isn't a particularly great flick, but Pacino's performance is first-rate. [24 May 2002, p.C1]
Here's a movie that's well visualized, that does a riveting job of exploring an authentic subculture, that has a fairly high level of genuine suspense from beginning to end. . and that then seems to make a conscious decision not to declare itself on its central subject. What does Friedkin finally think his movie is about?
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