The directors achieved extraordinary access to this subculture, and skillfully combine staged interviews with, among other things, footage shot in clubs and people's homes.

April 21, 2016 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…

Sarah Boslaugh

Playback:stl

A stark, sobering documentary.

April 14, 2016 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Craig Mathieson

The Sunday Age

It's probable some of the participants in Chemsex are enjoying themselves more than they admit here, but as in all documentaries of this ilk, a degree of hypocrisy is built in.

April 14, 2016 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Jake Wilson

Sydney Morning Herald

A surprisingly sturdy and nuanced exploration of a dangerous, drug-fueled underground sex culture that has increasingly been infiltrating the mainstream.

March 2, 2016 | Rating: Recommended | Full Review…

Felix Hubble

4:3

It is a provocative, often shocking exposé about a 'new norm.'

February 17, 2016 | Full Review…

Colin Fraser

FILMINK (Australia)

As shocking as the details of chemsex life are revealed to be, it is the universality of the struggle each of these men face that ultimately defies orientation and gender.

February 12, 2016 | Full Review…

Simon Foster

Screen-Space

Fairman and Gogarty try to give a sense of the appeal of this hedonistic abandonment, while simultaneously showing how deeply saddening and traumatic much of the activity is.

December 14, 2015 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Amber Wilkinson

Eye for Film

It's a pleasure and an honour to spend time with the interviewees (Miguel, Enrique and Simon are especially adorable, articulate and open) but there's something disingenuous about Chemsex.

December 13, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Charlotte O'Sullivan

London Evening Standard

A very strong piece of journalistic documentary.

December 4, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

David Jenkins

Little White Lies

Serious, shocking and occasionally stomach-churning.

December 3, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…