Fantastic!

Rating: 10/10 (10 November 1998)

An amazing and amazingly effective and affecting piece of cinema. This is entirely due to the generosity and courage with which Haynes shapes his highly idiosyncratic and personal approach to his art by exploiting all that is revealed in the sharpest rays of his flourescent psyche. For all its flamboyance, this is a film of great subtlety and high wit, not a dish for all palates. Todd Haynes knows exactly what he's doing but it takes a smart audience to keep up with him.
I give it a nine point five out of ten. Smashing, altogether smashing.