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Documentary Reviews 'Cruising' Legacy
Variety reviewed the documentary ‘Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders,’ which explores the legacy of William Friedkin’s 1980 film ‘Cruising.’ The review delves into how the film has been perceived and reinterpreted over time, particularly by the LGBTQ+ community.
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Variety
The legacy of William Friedkin’s 1980 erotic thriller “Cruising” is a complex one. A film long vehemently denounced by the queer community it purported to represent, and more recently reclaimed as a rare mainstream portrait of a vanished social scene, it is many things to many people — and in disent
2026-06-08 21:40 UTC