Dorian Blues

[Writer-director] Bardwell offers a cheerful, if sometimes strenuously earnest, take on a subject that seems overdue for a lighthearted touch.

Dorian Blues has wit, humor, good performances, and clever technique that catapults the film into the front ranks of coming-out movies.

Dorian Blues makes me yearn for the day that audiences have become so comfortable enough with this subgenre that a clever director can make a spoof in which many if not all of the conventions get lampooned.

Llike his main character, writer-director Bardwell seems more concerned with maintaining the stereotypical status quo than making his own personal statement.