The Crying Game

...one of those rare films that has a genuinely haunting quality, a film that lingers in the imagination long after apparently more accomplished...

Neil Jordan's The Crying Game keeps us involved and committed through one plot twist after another. It's one of the best films of 1992.

The Crying Game is not to be missed. The script isn't especially convoluted or filled with twists and turns, but the less said the better.

Thematic issues aside, THE CRYING GAME pulls off a tremendously difficult technical feat; its screenplay contains not one, but two, wrenching twists, each of which could easily derail the narrative in the hands of a lesser storyteller.