Mr. Drake can be rivetingly angry, intense, frenetic, frank and touching.
70
L.A. Weekly
L.A. Weekly
Drake draws us in, digging deep to track the occasionally divine, always ridiculous journey that is big-city gay life.
70
Village VoiceJessica Winter
Village VoiceJessica Winter
Once Drake reaches the candlelight vigil that acts as his penultimate set piece, he sustains an impossible balance between mordant wit and articulate bewilderment.
63
New York PostHannah Brown
New York PostHannah Brown
There's enough wit, intelligence and theatrical intensity at work in Larry Kramer to overcome an occasional tendency toward politically correct smugness.
63
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
On film, and eight years after they were written, his urgent re-creations of an awkward first date, or a Village People obsession, feel both overly familiar and almost embarrassingly earnest.