Critic Reviews

• Susan Walker, Toronto Star

  Those in search of a film about gay men disillusioned in Hollywood with a better script and more dramatic heft should rent Gods And Monsters or Thom Fitzgerald's Beefcake.

• Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

  More tasteful, sensitive and original than you might imagine.

• Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle

  Glatzer and Wash try to explore the nature of obsession and the ambiguity of sexual categories in The Fluffer, but it's hard to give two hoots about any of these characters.

• Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News

  A witty, sad, informed view of obsession, submission and the sex industry.

• Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

  Johnny ... remains something of a cipher, and the film mostly shies away from the issues it raises.

• Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

  Ultimately emerges as a coming-of-age odyssey of notable substance and honesty.

• Bob Westal, Film Threat

  Funny and sensitive for all its faults, The Fluffer is nevertheless unlikely to break out of the gay cinema ghetto.

• Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly

  Saturated with deep, rich color and low-key visual wit, and graced with sympathetic performances.

• Brent Simon, Entertainment Today

  Bills itself 'both a satiric look at the porn industry and a dark tale of obsession' -- proof that self-description is often self-delusion.

• Jason Clark, Matinee Magazine

  The film never follows its own logic, but also never goes down the path you think it will

• Robin Clifford, Reeling Reviews

  ...too much of the lives of the stars of "The Fluffer" and not enough of the examination of the porn business.

• Laura Clifford, Reeling Reviews

  "The Fluffer" starts with a bang, but can't quite sustain the expectations it raises.

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