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Christopher Street

Christopher Street is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Quentin Crisp.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
A Handful of Dust (1988) Quentin Crisp There is much to recommend in A Handful of Dust -- impressive manorial interiors and chilly English landscapes, [and] faultlessly articulated lines... but it remains a misguided venture; it has been impossible to impose upon the plot a cinematic shape.
Posted May 07, 2024  Edit critic review
Big Business (1988) Quentin Crisp This is easily the most enjoyable film that we have seen since Down and Out in Beverly Hills.
Posted May 07, 2024  Edit critic review
Big Top Pee-wee (1988) Quentin Crisp In reducing its narrative to the merest skeleton, I am not being unfair to Big Top Pee-wee; in fact, I am doing it a favor. Its weakness lies in its innumerable digressions and its lack of any clearly defined intention - its absence of a consistent style.
Posted May 07, 2024  Edit critic review
Beaches (1988) Quentin Crisp In Beaches, Miss Midler and Miss Hershey wrangle, forgive, embrace, part, and reunite until I found their antics difficult to comprehend, difficult to believe, and finally difficult to bear.
Posted May 07, 2024  Edit critic review
Prick Up Your Ears (1987) Quentin Crisp What the film lacks is unity and a gradual quickening of pace. Although we know from the stunning beginning what the climax will be, we do not feel that we are being drawn relentlessly toward it.
Posted May 07, 2024  Edit critic review
1984 (1984) Quentin Crisp The film is faultlessly acted by the entire cast and the settings are perfectly photographed in the kind of lighting that prevails on Waterloo or any of the main-line railway stations in London.
Posted May 07, 2024  Edit critic review
The Big Chill (1983) Quentin Crisp The film is as disappointing as being alive, but I must hastily add that it is very carefully prepared for the screen; at all times, it looks natural and the acting is superb.
Posted May 07, 2024  Edit critic review
Tootsie (1982) Quentin Crisp Highly enjoyable in spite of certain weakness.
Posted May 07, 2024  Edit critic review
Elena and Her Men (1956) Quentin Crisp I have no objection to frivolity, but there is something slightly annoying about this kind of film.
Posted May 07, 2024  Edit critic review
Pink Floyd - The Wall (1982) Quentin Crisp The scenes of violence are marvelously put together. It is hard to realize that we are watching fiction... However, although The Wall is horrifying, it is not lurid; we are never allowed to derive from this film any satisfaction for our kinkiness.
Posted May 07, 2024  Edit critic review
Mask (1985) Quentin Crisp With this rather hazy material, Cher works wonders. Around the vagueness of the story, she weaves her own personal mystery.
Posted May 06, 2024  Edit critic review
Heartburn (1986) Quentin Crisp If anything saves Heartburn from disaster, it is the occasional visually comic surprise and a few very funny lines.
Posted May 06, 2024  Edit critic review
Swann in Love (1984) Quentin Crisp The other strong asset of this movie is the acting... At the beginning of this century, the upper classes seem to have behaved with extreme formality and complete casualness at the same time. The film captures this strange mixture perfectly.
Posted May 06, 2024  Edit critic review
Steaming (1985) Quentin Crisp Steaming enjoyed a long run on the London stage but did less well here. It will be a pity if the movie suffers a similar fate.
Posted May 06, 2024  Edit critic review
Law of Desire (1987) Quentin Crisp The plot of Law of Desire is positively labyrinthine... It is easy for the audience to lose its way, but I must admit that as soon as the police become involved, momentum does increase to a very exciting pace.
Posted May 06, 2024  Edit critic review
Outrageous Fortune (1987) Quentin Crisp A movie must be described as good not necessarily because it gives you what you hoped to see but if it delivers what it promises. Outrageous Fortune does this and by this standard can hardly be criticized.
Posted May 06, 2024  Edit critic review
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) Quentin Crisp The climax of the film is absolutely stunning; it has become the story of a young man whose very weakness drives him to heroic action, like a Graham Greene novel but kinky instead of sacred.
Posted May 06, 2024  Edit critic review
The Dresser (1983) Quentin Crisp Outside of documentaries made at the time, I have never seen a picture that creates in such detail the bleakness of England during the Second World War.
Posted May 06, 2024  Edit critic review
Too Outrageous! (1987) Quentin Crisp The picture’s chief asset... is the presence of Mr. Russell. He has an enigmatic personality and veiled eyes that never quite look at anything. This provides a fascinating contrast to his highly concentrated stage image.
Posted May 01, 2024  Edit critic review
Hope and Glory (1987) Quentin Crisp The acting, both by the children and the adults, is very good, and the art direction or, perhaps, the photography, is faultless.
Posted May 01, 2024  Edit critic review
Don Juan DeMarco (1995) Quentin Crisp Mr. Brando is now a picturesque ruin, but he is just as magnetic as of old.
Posted May 26, 2022  Edit critic review
The Pelican Brief (1993) Quentin Crisp The movie has a foolish ending, but it is worth seeing.
Posted May 26, 2022  Edit critic review
Short Cuts (1993) Quentin Crisp Short Cuts is a long film, but it is not boring because the cast of characters is so numerous and the incidents so varied.
Posted May 26, 2022  Edit critic review
Naked Tango (1991) Quentin Crisp More double-dealing, more mayhem, more tangoing, until... even the audience is moribund.
Posted May 26, 2022  Edit critic review
Miller's Crossing (1990) Quentin Crisp It held my interest from the first frame to the last.
Posted May 26, 2022  Edit critic review
Sense and Sensibility (1995) Quentin Crisp It is a gem. Miss Austen’s sly humor is everywhere present but never caricatured.
Posted Apr 25, 2022  Edit critic review
Nixon (1995) Quentin Crisp It is a triumph for Mr. Hopkins as he schemes, curses, weeps, and prays.
Posted Apr 25, 2022  Edit critic review
Leaving Las Vegas (1995) Quentin Crisp It is the most boring film ever made -- worse than a documentary.
Posted Apr 25, 2022  Edit critic review
The Usual Suspects (1995) Quentin Crisp It is a wonderful film, with a plot as complicated as Farewell My Lovely and as violent as any of Mr. Stallone’s pictures.
Posted Apr 25, 2022  Edit critic review
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995) Quentin Crisp The pity is that in this abysmal film, Mr. Swayze’s wonderful performance is wasted.
Posted Apr 25, 2022  Edit critic review
Smoke (1995) Quentin Crisp A curious and interesting picture.
Posted Apr 25, 2022  Edit critic review
The Brothers McMullen (1995) Quentin Crisp A self-absorbed picture.
Posted Apr 25, 2022  Edit critic review
Species (1995) Quentin Crisp If you want to find out what a mistake it is to send messages into outer space, see Species, but I’m warning you: It’s kids’ stuff -- horrid kids, not a bit like Mr. Bunny’s adventures, and we’ve all forgotten how violent his cartoons were.
Posted Apr 21, 2022  Edit critic review
Living in Oblivion (1995) Quentin Crisp I cannot praise Living In Oblivion too highly, but I doubt that it will make fifty million dollars the moment it is shown.
Posted Apr 21, 2022  Edit critic review
Little Odessa (1994) Quentin Crisp The film has no plot. The audience never knows why the murders take place and soon ceases to care.
Posted Apr 21, 2022  Edit critic review
Priest (1994) Quentin Crisp All this is such a pity, because Priest could have been such a good and important film.
Posted Apr 21, 2022  Edit critic review
Shallow Grave (1995) Quentin Crisp It is not the narrative that is so new, but the way it is told.
Posted Apr 21, 2022  Edit critic review
A Man of No Importance (1994) Quentin Crisp I felt that more could have been done with such a good idea and such an excellent actor.
Posted Apr 21, 2022  Edit critic review
Pulp Fiction (1994) Quentin Crisp This grim scenario is enlivened by many jokes. In the midst of the violent action, the dialogue is quaintly stilted and peppered with quotations from Ezekiel.
Posted Apr 21, 2022  Edit critic review
Quiz Show (1994) Quentin Crisp Quiz Show must be praised because it is a film with a strong story line, characters with whom the audience can sympathize, a climax and a resolution with no violence and no sex. Mr. Redford... must be congratulated on achieving this unusual feat.
Posted Apr 21, 2022  Edit critic review
The Madness of King George (1994) Quentin Crisp The film, though English in subject matter, was far from English in style. It was grand, not parochial; crude, not genteel, and very funny.
Posted Apr 21, 2022  Edit critic review
Ladybird, Ladybird (1994) Quentin Crisp The poverty, hardship, and rage that the couple endures become monotonous.
Posted Apr 21, 2022  Edit critic review
Death and the Maiden (1994) Quentin Crisp Miss Weaver plays the victim with quite astonishing intensity, and deals with Mr. Kingsley in a manner that is quite convincing.
Posted Apr 21, 2022  Edit critic review
Nell (1994) Quentin Crisp The film Nell featured Miss Foster, and was a tour de force (whatever that may mean).
Posted Apr 21, 2022  Edit critic review
Interview With the Vampire (1994) Quentin Crisp I simply do not want any more movies about vampires or about Mr. Frankenstein. I thought Interview was rubbish -- routine, but illogical rubbish.
Posted Apr 21, 2022  Edit critic review
Tom & Viv (1994) Quentin Crisp How good Miss Harris is at portraying one of those English, upper-class, protected women (she was wonderful in the same sort of part on Broadway in An Inspector Calls).
Posted Apr 21, 2022  Edit critic review
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) Quentin Crisp All in all, a confused but thoroughly enjoyable film.
Posted Apr 21, 2022  Edit critic review
Bitter Moon (1992) Quentin Crisp Mr. Polanski is losing his touch.
Posted Apr 20, 2022  Edit critic review
Strictly Ballroom (1992) Quentin Crisp Strictly Ballroom contains everything that dancers hate about movies and dancing.
Posted Apr 06, 2022  Edit critic review
Addams Family Values (1993) Quentin Crisp It tries too hard. As with Hocus Pocus and Dracula, every frame is a climax. The net result is tiring rather than exciting.
Posted Apr 06, 2022  Edit critic review
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