Flawless (1999) Critic Reviews

It says a lot for Joel Schumacher's Flawless that you can see the picture's high-concept heart a mile away and still be won over by it.Read the full review

A smartly crafted throwback to the gritty Manhattan crime melodramas of the '40s .Read the full review

More fable than slice of life, and all these people and props give Robert De Niro and Philip Seymour Hoffman their opening to create two screwy characters from opposite ends of the great personality divideRead the full review

Contrived and overly schematic, but De Niro and Hoffman are such good actors that it never slips into pat sentiment.Read the full review

Worth stumbling into on cable not all that far into next year.Read the full review

Flawless this Joel Schumacher film is not, but it plays so well that scarcely matters.Read the full review

Schumacher takes a step in the right direction with Flawless, a small-scale, intimate serio-comedy.Read the full review

A coy seriocomedy distantly related to--but missing the sting of--"Kiss of the Spider Woman."Read the full review

So awful it just might put an end to Hollywood's hypocritical infatuation with men in drag as symbols of its own supposedly liberated sexual attitudes.Read the full review