Cruising | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

It reveals a shrewd perspective on desire, identity, and fascism in America. You just have to look.

A mediocre film that has made a great rallying point for our anger and frustration over the treatment of gays in movies.

I don't think it poses the massive threat to gay lives and sanity some writers have anticipated. But Cruising [is] part of a larger picture: its homophobia does not stand alone in the history of American cinema, and that's where the greatest danger lies.

The film is ugly and mean, but art is fundamentally a search for the truth, and when the vision starts to become unpalatable, is it suddenly right for us to complain?

At its best, this William Friedkin effort is an American giallo and a document of a community just before HIV/AIDS came along and demolished it.