Cruising
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr">A serial killer is targeting men in New York's leather bars. Steve Burns, a young officer who fits the victim profile, is sent under cover into the clubs of the Meatpacking District to draw the murderer out — and finds the assignment working on him in ways the department never accounted for.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr"><strong>William Friedkin</strong>'s film was picketed during production and condemned on release, and it remains genuinely difficult: a thriller that borrows a subculture as its atmosphere while treating queer desire as something contagious. It's also unmistakably the work of the director of <em>The French Connection</em>, shot with a documentary flatness in real venues with real patrons, and its reputation has been argued over ever since — as a homophobic artefact, as an accidental record of a world about to be devastated by AIDS, occasionally as both at once. <strong>Al Pacino</strong> is opaque and unnerving in the lead.</p><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr"><b><u>Content warning:</u> </b>This film contains graphic violence, sexual content and homophobic language. </p>CrimePT1H42M182026-09-29Al Pacino
Paul Sorvino
Karen Allen
William Friedkin
Cruising"Cruising"Showtimes
September 29, 8:20 pm
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