Prick Up Your Ears

  • 1987


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Positive Reviews 21
Negative reviews 1
Average Rating 4.1/5
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5.0
The great performances in the movie are, of course, at its center. Gary Oldman plays Orton and Alfred Molina plays Halliwell, and these are two of the .. Rogerebert
4.0
Gary Oldman is excellent as Orton, right down to remarkable resemblance, while Alfred Molina creates both an amusing and tormented Halliwell. Vanessa .. Variety
4.5
Oldman is brilliant; Molinas Halliwell less subtle; and the films dissection of cottaging quaintly amusing. Time Out
5.0
Interestingly, this film doesnt show Orton or Halliwell encountering homophobia as such, but does show how tricky it was negotiating the pre 67 dont a .. The Guardian
1.5
These are the facts, and Molinas eyes burning, theatrical performance doesnt go much beyond them.
4.5
He spells badly and doesnt understand Shakespeare, but hes smart as a city rat.
3.0
A decent snapshot of pre Beatle Britain, this is much more a fact based gay melodrama than a trenchant portrait of Joe Ortons life, loves and art.
3.0
Offers a creative portrait of playwright Joe Ortons life and death. Spirituality And Practice
4.5
As a portrait of a relationship and a creative partnership, Prick is ever alert to the shifts in power, to the narcissistic wounds that can never be s .. Village Voice
4.0
A perfect storm of talent collides to create one of cinemas great doomed love dramas. The Times
4.0
Molina stares down all clichs, veering away from effeminate tones when they would be most convenient and avoids trapping Ken into a brooding madman. Pop Matters
4.5
The result is a powerful, hard hitting drama which simultaneously manages to be one of the funniest films of its era. Eye For Film
3.0
Jealousy and obsession are epic emotions (see Notes On A Scandal), but can feel trifling here. Bbc
4.4
Oldman, fresh from his triumph as Sex Pistol Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy, is the key and holds it all together. Movies Tv Guide
4.0
Every penny of that record breaking (and independently financed) budget has been put on screen.If The Fifth Elements taxi skyways knocked your orange .. Games Radar
4.5
Molina is superb as Halliwell, managing to not only depict a man gradually unravelling from intelligent and dignified to frenzied and paranoid but to .. Lw Lies
2.5
The film covers the main events of the Orton life in a manner that is nothing less than distracted. One has little understanding of the fatal intensit .. Ny Times
4.0
Stands up extraordinarily well: mostly because of two outstanding central performances, Gary Oldman as the talented, blase Orton, and Alfred Molina as .. Film Guardian
4.0
A brilliant and painfully raw portrait of a troubled, a tragic relationship. Film 4
4.5
But theres little sense of the tragedy, so vivid in two adjoining photographs in John Lahrs book. Bfi
4.5
Alan Bennetts script is Ortonesque, but without the theatrical extravagance; it suits the cinema, in other words, and it is witty, acute and economica .. Archive Spectator
4.5
With Gary Oldman exuding plebeian charm and sharpness and looking amazingly like Orton in his photographs, the film is convincing and impossible to wa .. Ny Books
4.5
Prick Up Your Ears may shock less than viewers might expect given the gruesome facts of the story, but the films extraordinary writing, directing, and .. Gay City News



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