Joe Lipsett The Queer Gaze (Podcast) Jul 10, 2025 4.5/5

Jean-Marc Vallée's 70s-set coming of age/coming out film is visually stunning, filled with specifically chosen needle drops that nearly turn the movie into a musical, and anchored by a fantastic lead performance by Marc-André Grondin.

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Gregg Shapiro Bay Area Reporter Jun 30, 2022 A-

Set, as it is, during the especially turbulent 1960s and 1970s, and continuing into the 1980s, C.R.A.Z.Y. does an exceptional job of capturing the zeitgeist of those periods.

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Jas Keimig The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Dec 8, 2021

Told over the course of three decades with big familial moments set around Christmas, the film also includes a lot of music from each era, thanks to director Jean-Marc Vallée...

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David Lamble Bay Area Reporter May 7, 2020

C.R.A.Z.Y. is a film of intelligence and integrity, with a great pop soundtrack.

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Beatriz Maldivia Espinof Feb 13, 2020

A nostalgia exercise, correctly shot and performed. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Olivia Glazebrook The Spectator Apr 1, 2019

It is the story of a boy growing up in Montreal in the Sixties and Seventies, and it's quite marvellous

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Dan Sallitt Senses of Cinema Oct 17, 2018

Playing the charismatic, androgyne hero in his older incarnation, Marc-André Grondin is surprisingly able to hold his own in his lifelong power struggle with veteran Michel Côté's ultracool patriarch.

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Jennie Kermode Eye for Film Sep 17, 2018 5/5

It is filled with quietly hilarious, but also cringe-making moments.

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Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall Sep 17, 2018 4.5/5

This is the kind of film that haunts us long after we leave the cinema. It's packed with such a variety of emotional highs and lows--from Zac's violent self-loathing to his spiritual quest for meaning.

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Michelle Thomas Future Movies UK Sep 17, 2018 4/5

It's a warm and delightful film, punctuated with sharp wit, and full of possibility.

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Matthew Turner ViewLondon Sep 17, 2018 4/5

C.R.A.Z.Y. is a sharply written, beautifully acted and thoroughly enjoyable film that's both moving and frequently hilarious.

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Liz Moody Empire Magazine Sep 17, 2018 4/5

Fantastic performances, sharp wit and a raw honesty breathe new life into the rites-of-passage drama.

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Philippa Hawker The Age (Australia) Sep 17, 2018

There's a warmth and detail to the way father, mother and son are depicted and explored.

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Ken Eisner Georgia Straight Sep 17, 2018

An intimate story told on an epic scale, C.R.A.Z.Y. is a delightfully satisfying mix of the particular and the universal, with enough dark shading to ward off sentimentality.

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Dorothy Woodend The Tyee (British Columbia) Aug 24, 2017

There is a bit of shaggy dog quality to the film, it meanders all over the damn place, but it has charm to boot, and a marvelous soundtrack, that director Jean-Marc Valle secured through pure bloody-minded tenaciousness.

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Tara Thorne The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Jul 11, 2016

Though not the revelation some over-zealous critics would have you believe-the movie is essentially plotless-C.R.A.Z.Y. is a well-constructed, highly rewatchable study of a regular, middle-class family.

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Ali Catterall Film4 Dec 5, 2008 3/5

A warm-hearted if predictable rites-of-passage movie, enlivened by some surreal flourishes and a stomping glam soundtrack.

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Boyd van Hoeij Kamera.co.uk Jul 18, 2007

If Brokeback Mountain was the bleak gay drama of 2005 that all audiences could enjoy, then another 2005 feature, the equally heterosexually enjoyable C.R.A.Z.Y., puts the colour back in the adjective 'gay'.

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Jette Kernion Cinematical Jan 24, 2007 3.5/5

C.R.A.Z.Y. succeeds by touching on the kinds of events that could happen to any of us.

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Don Willmott Filmcritic.com Dec 28, 2006 4/5

It will exhaust your eyes, your ears, and your mind.

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