• Studio: FilmNext
  • Release Date: Jul 14, 2000
Metascore
67 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Mr. Drake can be rivetingly angry, intense, frenetic, frank and touching.
  2. Reviewed by: Chuck Wilson
    70
    Drake draws us in, digging deep to track the occasionally divine, always ridiculous journey that is big-city gay life.
  3. 70
    Once Drake reaches the candlelight vigil that acts as his penultimate set piece, he sustains an impossible balance between mordant wit and articulate bewilderment.
  4. On film, and eight years after they were written, his urgent re-creations of an awkward first date, or a Village People obsession, feel both overly familiar and almost embarrassingly earnest.
  5. 63
    There's enough wit, intelligence and theatrical intensity at work in Larry Kramer to overcome an occasional tendency toward politically correct smugness.
  6. Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    60
    It exudes a slightly stale air that does nothing to dispel gay stereotypes.