1. The clever screenwriter Paul Rudnick cooks up a solid script that's both wildly funny and gently satirical.
2. Actually, the funniest parts of the movie are excerpts from the film that Cameron is originally nominated for.
3. A plain ol' enjoyable time at the movies.
4. In & Out is the screwball Philadelphia, a movie that contorts itself in order to indulge and then whitewash the core audience's perceived homophobia.
5. Forget the inevitable carping and give credit where credit is due.
6. ...an often painfully broad comedy that's rarely as entertaining (or as funny) as one might've anticipated.
7. Fast-moving and very funny.
8. If only it was gay in the old sense of the word.
9. Paul Rudnick has written scenes that will go down as classics.
10. Basically a one-joke farce that plays around with a once-delicate subject that by now is a mainstay even on TV.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?
It doesn't always find comfortable ground between broad comedy and social commentary, but lively performances -- especially from Kevin Kline and Joan Cusack -- enrich In & Out's mixture of laughs and sexual tolerance.