Austin Chronicle .
Trick is as sweet and sublime as any recent movie has come.
It's a long night's journey into day, a romantic interlude that may very well be the first gay date movie that's equally accessible to straight couples. The kick in Trick is watching the unexpected spark kindle between these two strangers, in large part because it comes as such a surprise to both of them. While Campbell and Pitoc make for an appealing pair of moonstruck characters, it is Campbell's shy performance as Gabriel, the struggling artist trying to break into Broadway, that sticks with you longer. He's the movie's center. Screenwriter Jason Schafer references musical theatre clich s throughout Trick as a means to inform the movie's romance, but this touch is light, never heavy.