Diana Tuova Spotlight on Film Jul 18, 2024 4/5

The documentary-like feature of 120 BPM makes the film instantly appealing, and it is great the film does not shy away from portraying the worst, accentuating the frustration, anger, despair, and pain of the members of ACT UP-Paris and AIDS sufferers.

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Steve Cruz OUT FRONT Magazine (Denver) May 9, 2023

When the film jumps into the flurry and turmoil of a civil disobedience protest, it still comes down to the individuals whose stories the film is telling. It does so with gravity, humor, and affection.

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Brian T. Carney Washington Blade Dec 15, 2022

It’s proudly queer, deeply erotic even in the face of illness and mortality, passionately engaging and ultimately heart-breaking, stuffed to the brim with fervent debate...

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Michael Cuby them. Oct 31, 2022

The film is a powerful portrayal of government negligence and the anger that is too often our only resort for overcoming it.

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Carson Timar Filmotomy Feb 12, 2022

BPM (Beats per Minute) might not always be an easy or fun watch, but stands out as one of the best representations of this horrific time in LGBTQ+ history.

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Ben Turner The Pink Lens Sep 1, 2021 5/5

120 BPM is the movie about AIDS we have all been waiting for, delivered by the hands of one of the very best directors working outside Hollywood.

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Charlotte Harrison Charlotte Sometimes Goes to the Movies Jul 9, 2021

Members of the advocacy group ACT UP Paris demand action by the government and pharmaceutical companies to combat the AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s. Perfection.

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Jason Adams The Film Experience Jul 2, 2021

BPM manages to tell this story with so very much life - forms twisting into one another in the darkness of dance clubs and unmade beds; parading proudly, high kicks down the streets

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Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema Apr 18, 2021 3.5/5

Little is wasted, and despite a lengthy running time of 140 minutes, 'BPM' moves with energetic and clear eyes.

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Scott Nye Battleship Pretension Jan 13, 2021

Comedy has more and more been expected to actively champion progressive causes. Ted 2 does, far more vociferously than most...

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David Lamble Bay Area Reporter Jun 4, 2020

The powerful new French drama BPM (Beats Per Minute) immediately makes the personal political.

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Steven Prokopy Third Coast Review May 19, 2020

BPM does make for a compelling snapshot of a time and place where activism felt more critical and necessary, when the rules of engagement were not just about winning but about survival.

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Dan Scully Cinema76 Mar 24, 2020

BPM is a stone cold masterpiece.

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Felicia Feaster Burnaway.org Jan 16, 2020

Far from simply an "issue" film, BPM is an incisive, moving portrait of what it feels like to occupy its subjects' skin, to feel a sense of both acute sexual ecstasy and love and also a powerful, encroaching doom.

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Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com Oct 10, 2019 3.5/5

BPM (Beats Per Minute) is, for once, a stellar consideration for some of the courageous souls who dedicated their lives to the activism which eventually resulted in necessary visibility.

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Hanna B Film Threat Aug 6, 2019

It is a film that will stay with you possibly forever also thanks to a killer soundtrack of selected, remixed cult hit songs and a score composed by Arnaud Rebotini.

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Mikel Zorrilla Espinof Aug 1, 2019

Good performances - especially that of Nahuel Pérez Biscayart - and a portrait of this disease that goes beyond the usual in the cinema. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Jun 4, 2019 2.5/4

Could have used a little bit more of Act Up's uncompromising spirit to keep it from becoming too bland.

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Julie Crawford North Shore News (Vancouver, B.C.) Apr 16, 2019

There's heartbreak aplenty amidst this delicate balance of life and death but cause for optimism too as these young people take indifference to task.

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Sergi Sánchez Fotogramas Mar 1, 2019 3/5

Where the film triumphs unabashedly is in the realm of intimacy. [Full Review in Spanish]

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