Once the main players are established, though, and experimental flashes of harsh analog video become a more recognizable manifestation of its ugly-beautiful aesthetic, Plainclothes builds to a ...

About 20 minutes into Carmen Emmi’s thriller Plainclothes, which follows a series of undercover sting operations to capture gay men trolling for lovers in a suburban mall bathroom, I had little ...

A debut film for writer-director Carmen Emmi, Plainclothes (2025) stars Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey, Maria Dizzia and Gabe Fazio ...

That’s the intriguing — if credulity-stretching — premise of “Plainclothes,” which casts Tom Blyth (the outlaw star of Epix’s “Billy the Kid”) as Lucas, a second-generation cop ...

The undercover work depicted in Plainclothes seems not so different from the homophobic witch-hunts of more than half a century ago. One of the most famous cases was the arrest in 1953 of ...

As the LGBTQ community continues to face threats to their safety and rights as equal American citizens, the cast and creatives of “Plainclothes” were quick to admit that things feel ...

EXCLUSIVE: Magnolia Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to the Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey thriller Plainclothes from filmmaker Carmen Emmi. Emmi’s directorial debut is set in 1990s Syracuse ...

Case in point: “Plainclothes.” In writer-director Carmen Emmi’s feature debut, Blyth stars as Lucas, an undercover cop in 1990s Syracuse, N.Y., who falls in love with Andrew (Russell Tovey ...

Sundance: This story of a closeted gay cop who falls in love with one of his targets tries too much experimentation without having the narrative fundamentals down. For an undercover cop in 1997 ...