Documentary Reviews William Friedkin’s ‘Cruising’

Robert Irvine is best known to Food Network audiences as the host of Restaurant: Impossible, which he hosted for 22 seasons. The series ended its run in 2023, but the network is rebooting the franchise as Restaurant Impossible: Last Call with chef Aarón Sánchez and Canadian restaurateur Jen Agg. Wit

“Kinks are eroticized fears,” says author Dan Savage in this fascinating documentary, which takes a brutal murder as its starting point and goes on to paint a portrait of pre-Aids New York, with the filming of William Friedkin’s Cruising (1980) as its backdrop. Not all Friedkin’s films hit the zeitg