Synopsis
San Francisco, 1985. Two opposites attract at a modern dance company. Together, their courage and resilience are tested as they navigate a world full of risks and promise, against the backdrop of a disease no one seems to know anything about.
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Cast
- Scott MarloweFrankie
- Matthew RischTodd
- Kevin ClarkeBill
- Kristoffer CusickWalt
- Damon K. SperberDr. Corbett
- Chris Mason JohnsonJerry
Recommendations
- 100
The New York Times
As Frankie, Mr. Marlowe delivers a quiet, moving performance of such subtlety and truthfulness that you almost feel that you are living his life. - 75
Slant Magazine
Adept as both timely character study and epochal drama, Test wonderfully manages fully formed humanism without sentimentality. - 70
TheWrap
Writer-director Chris Mason Johnson's important, assured drama best succeeds as a snapshot of a moment in time when every gay man is forced to decide how AIDS will change his life. - 70
Village Voice
When Frankie, an understudy in a small dance company, is given his chance to perform, he, and Test itself, come to life. - 67
The A.V. Club
Clumsy metaphors and contrived attempts to articulate Frankie’s fears—especially as he awaits the results of the titular test—diminish the emotional authenticity engendered by Daniel Marks’ hyper-real cinematography and the film’s incisively curated soundtrack. - 60
The Dissolve
Test is a slow burn that builds to an impressive end, although the rest of film is in need of that same kind of forward-driving energy. - 40
Los Angeles Times
The AIDS scare remains as much window dressing as do other period details such as rotary phones and cassette tapes. Test seems to be about dance above all, with choreographed montages filling the bulk of its running time.
