The Normal Heart

"The Normal Heart manages to work both sides of the issue - the anger at inaction and those complicit in turning a blind eye, and the personal toll the disease took."

"Be moved. Be angry."

"You will learn lessons that should not be forgotten about the fear, foolishness, prejudice and intentional blindness..."

"Flawed but terrifically moving, The Normal Heart is a boldly corporeal expression of gay political consciousness."

"Joins the best of the genre - Longtime Companion, Parting Glances, An Early Frost, Philadelphia, the shattering documentary Silverlake Life - as a monument to the lives lost."

"Some 30 years later, this movie-strident, passionate, frenetic, and aching-is a reminder, as Memorial Day weekend begins the summer, of all those empty spots the plague left on the beach."

"In a film directed by Ryan Murphy and with strong performances, including those by Mr. Ruffalo, Ms. Roberts, Matt Bomer, Jim Parsons and Alfred Molina, Mr. Mantello's anguished lament may be the most haunting."

"The Normal Heart is not as powerful as Kramer's incendiary play, but it is still too passionate and potently acted to miss."

"Broad and intimate."

"If anger and suffering were all there were to The Normal Heart, watching it would be torture. Luckily, it has heart to match its guts."