Jeremy Kinser The Advocate Apr 19, 2022

Dimitriades gives an impassioned performance, but the sleaze quickly grows monotonous.

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David Ehrenstein New Times Oct 3, 2017

... the movie demonstrates just how hard coming out can be, especially for those more at war with themselves than with the culture around them.

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Andrea Gronvall Chicago Reader Apr 1, 2010

Director Ana Kokkinos has an eye for local color but spends little time developing the supporting characters.

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Caffeinated Clint Film Threat May 6, 2005 2/5

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Garth Franklin Dark Horizons Apr 2, 2005 2.5/5

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Desson Thomson Washington Post Feb 24, 2005

In a way, the film is a kissing cousin to the 1960s kitchen sink dramas of the British cinema and the working-class angst of German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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Paula Nechak Seattle Post-Intelligencer Apr 3, 2002 B

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Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times Feb 7, 2001

Anyone of any generation who has ever felt at odds with his or her environment can identify with the characters in Head On.

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Stephen Holden New York Times Jan 1, 2000 1.5/5

Strains so desperately for a tragic kitchen-sink realism that in several crucial scenes the movie loses its grip and escalates into strident melodrama.

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Elias Savada Nitrate Online Jan 1, 2000 2.5/4

Head On crashes rights into your gay expectations and drags them down into the gutter. Powerful forces are at work here. You won't go home laughing. No way.

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Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com Jan 1, 2000 3/4

A film more easily admired than enjoyed, but there is much to admire in this bold, unsettling film.

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Daniel Mangin Salon.com Jan 1, 2000

Its missteps and excesses aside, Head On is a promising feature film debut for Kokkinos.

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Bruce Kirkland Jam! Movies Jan 1, 2000 2/5

It seems to parade its anger instead of explaining it or putting it in a dramatic context. It's a rant, not a drama.

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Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle Jan 1, 2000 4.5/5

Kokkinos ... goes at it all with a relentless, take-no-prisoners panache and pace; this film moves.

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Rod Armstrong Reel.com Jan 1, 2000 3.5/4

Its frank portrayal of gay life is a refreshing foil to the watered-down examples of queer cinema we've seen of late.

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Gemma Files Film.com Jan 1, 2000

One of this year's most sensual tragic spectacles -- a tour-de-force on a thousand different levels, with no easy happy endings in sight.

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David Noh Film Journal International Jan 1, 2000

Ari comes off as little more than a self-centered, bigoted layabout, contemptuous of anyone who works for a living and a trial to his family.

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Jessica Winter Village Voice Jan 1, 2000

The film's close is grim and ambivalent, a choice that would be commendable if the movie had not so stubbornly held the same dour tone for two hours already, and if Ari weren't as boring as he is bored.

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Tim Cogshell Boxoffice Magazine Jan 1, 2000 2.5/5

There are some powerful moments in this rambling day-in-the-life odyssey.

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Ben Falk Empire Magazine Jan 1, 2000 3/5

Kinetic, at times shocking, and -- as the title suggests -- constantly in your face, this is a film that may be narrow in scope but is awfully big in heart.

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