In & Out 1997

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: [Delivers] laughs and skewer a few stereotypes, thanks to extremely sly wit and a fine cast. Read more

Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader: Fast-moving and very funny. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: A truly funny, sophisticated, compassionate, mainstream Hollywood comedy about very modern homosexuality. Read more

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: The Hollywood stuff at the beginning with Glenn Close as an Oscar presenter and Matt Dillon as a puffed-up star on the rise is as funny and as nasty as anything in Libby Gelman-Waxner's columns. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: From the very first scene, you know that In and Out has struck a rich satirical vein. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: In a year when good comedies seem as hard to make as ever, In and Out is one of the best. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: Never amounts to more than a thin sketch. Read more

Time Out: Oz wants it both ways, though, and can't resist hammering home the message with a prolonged Spartacus-style climax quite as ludicrous as the Oscar winning film-within-the-film. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: Basically a one-joke farce that plays around with a once-delicate subject that by now is a mainstay even on TV. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Actually, the funniest parts of the movie are excerpts from the film that Cameron is originally nominated for. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: For the most part, this hilarious caper's gay characters are knee-deep in the American mainstream. Read more