Reviews
Since its AFI Fest premiere, The Gigolos has received mostly positive reviews, from amongst others the two leading trade magazines. Variety's Derek Elley described the film as "a natural for rep houses and upmarket movie channels" while in The Hollywood Reporter, Sheri Linden wrote it is "an effective slice-of-life portrait of characters".
On its UK release, reviews appeared in major UK newspapers. Sukhdev Sandhu of The Daily Telegraph said that Bracewell "evokes with poetic clarity the loneliness of late-night London." Ian Johns in The Times wrote that "intimate camerawork and scenes moodily capture half-revealed lives". Larushka Ivan-Zadeh in Metro told readers to "seek out this cliché-confounding, utterly intriguing debut Brit flick", adding that this The Gigolos is a "real rough gem". Mike McCahill wrote in The Sunday Telegraph that this is "a disarming debut...that subverts your every expectation with each new scene."
Less positive reviews came from The Guardian and Time Out. Andrew Pulver in The Guardian said the lead actors "manage to raise a few giggles, even if events remain pretty inconsequential." Time Out reviewer David Jenkins complimented parts of the film - there's some "ravishing imagery of central London" - but said the drama "is light on insight."
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