Flawless

Schumacher's film is personnel, but a few miscastments derail the film. It's about a cop who needs to sing to get better from a heart attack, so he consults a drag queen he has previously made fun of to help his... Full review

Flawless with its amazing chemistry and pluperfect performances by Robert DeNiro and Philip Seymour Hoffman is a very funny film which flows effortlessly into some dramatic moments. But very few want to talk about the social implications of it.Philip Seymour... Full review

This movie is one of my favorites. I never get tired of it. Phillip Seymour Hoffman really plays the drag queen role to the hilt. And my hat's off to Roberto Deniro for his hard work at playing a bitter character... Full review

This film is quite simply made by 4 things.1. Joel Schumacher's gritty photography and a style which concentrates on realism. New York is made to look exactly as it is, you can hear every sound, see every sight and smell... Full review

Walt Koontz (Robert De Niro) is a highly honored retired policeman, living in a community with many gays. Rusty Zimmerman (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a drag queen, neighbor of Walt, who aims to make a surgery for changing his sex.... Full review

The main problem with this is the lack of story, and what stroy there is stinks. It would be an okay melodrama if it got rid of every sub-plot and just had the two main guys, who almost manage to keep... Full review

Flawless is a film that is about performances from two fantastic leading men and no so much about the story or the plot itself. The movie is about an ex homophobic cop who suffers a stroke while trying to save... Full review

This film is about a bunch of strange characters living at and about a rundown hotel in NYC. Many of them are "drag queens" and they are having their annual contest for the "Flawless" female impersonator, thus the name of... Full review

I saw this film on a plane and thoroughly enjoyed it, particularly the performance of Philip Seymour Hoffmann whom I found spectacular as a lonely, vulnerable, witty drag queen reaching out to recent stroke victim, homophobic DeNiro. The two of... Full review

FLAWLESS / (1999) **1/2 (out of four)By Blake French: Somewhere in "Flawless" there is a very good movie, but it is shuttered by the awkwardness of a jumbled plot. There are two separate stories here, and although they are interrelated,... Full review

"Without the presence of Robert De Niro and Philip Seymour Hoffman the ironically titled Flawless might have been the most wretched piece of slop to have hit the screen this year. Hoffman is bubbly with bad dialogue as the drag queen who comes across like the birthday party guest who never made it to the 1970 film version of Mart Crowley's The Boys In The Band. ... Full Review

It's almost a text-book illustration of great film acting. Similarly, the news that Joel Schumacher planned to make a modest little character-driven movie was reported in American trade journals as though it represented a radical new departure for this most mainstream of directors. ... Full Review

By KEVIN THOMAS TIMES STAFF WRITER April 6, 2000 Wednesday November 24, 1999 "Flawless" this Joel Schumacher film is not, but it plays so well that that scarcely matters. Where "Flawless" is flawless is in Jan Roelfs absolutely authentic production design, Daniel Orlandi's right-on costumes and in Declan Quinn's rich, noirish cinematography. ... Full Review

Flawless" stars Robert DeNiro as a homophobic rent-a-cop who suffers a stroke during an act of heroism. How about the touching story of gruff ex-cop stricken with paralysis and a flamboyant drag queen waiting for a sex change operation! ... Full Review

Flawless" is rated R for considerable profanity, violent gunplay and a vicious beating, use of crude sexual slang terms and some questionable humor, and simulated drug use (marijuana and crack cocaine). As Walt, De Niro's post-stroke physical afflictions seem to come and go, and he's not nearly likeable enough to care about. ... Full Review

Q. What's with trailers these days? According to what I read, " Flawless " is about a man suffering from a stroke and becoming a better person through speech lessons with a transvestite. ... Full Article

With a title like Flawless , writer-director Joel Schumacher has set himself up for the easy critical jab, so allow me to get it out of the way right here, right now: Flawless is anything but. ... Full Article

Can a homophobic former rent-a-cop find happiness learning to sing with a man in a dress? That's the big question in this comedy-drama. A retired security guard (Robert De Niro), deeply conservative and set in his ways, falls victim to... ... Full Article

The title refers to a female impersonator contest, an event taking place off camera and only marginally related to this movie's plot.It's one of many irrelevant elements in writer-director Joel Schumacher's undisciplined odd-couple drama. ... Full Article

I don't know if worlds really exist like the one in ``Flawless.'' I don't know if there are still dance halls in New York where you pay by the dance, although I see them from time to time in the... ... Full Article

The producers of Flawless must have realized they were taking a big risk with a title like that. "Flawless is anything but," Lou Lumenick observes right off the bat in his New York Post review . Several critics, who rarely... ... Full Article