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Cruising

Al Pacino is Cruising for a killer.

1980 · 1h 42m · R Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by William Friedkin

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Overview

When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, young rookie Steve Burns infiltrates the S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.

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Rotten

What we're left with is a movie without the courage to declare itself.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten

This detective melodrama has something to offend almost everyone.

Frank Rich, TIME Magazine
Rotten

What's left is the framework for a graphic, brutal, sickening film, without the violent effects that might have made sense (however illegitimate) out of the conception.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten

Taking away the kissing, caressing and a few bloody killings, Friedkin has no story, though picture pretends to be a murder mystery combined with a study of Al Pacino's psychological degradation.

Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh

Its gamy images inside the leather and S&M gay bars along the Greenwich Village waterfront are both busy and dark.

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News

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