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Cruising

1980

William Friedkin

Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, Richard Cox ...

6.2

5,799

Mystery. Thriller Sexual thriller with Al Pacino as a young cop who must go undercover as a gay 'cruiser' in New York City. There's a homicidal homophobe on the streets, brutally killing gay men, and it's up to Pacino to stop him. Shot on location in several gay bars of the era.

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"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 (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Time Out	"Starting from a classic undercover premise and opening with some powerful moments, Cruising soon drifts into bloody Village People-type caricature"
		Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"A lurid, twisted film that brings you into its world and completely works you over."
		Charles Champlin Los Angeles Times	"It is not very clear at the rudimentary level of exposition of character and event. The problem... is in a script that never seems sure enough what it wants to say or prove."

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