Savagely amusing and warm.
THE WASHINGTON POST

Perceptive and thoroughly engaging.
THE LA TIMES

Warm, wry and sometimes bitterly sad…captures not only the affectations of its erudite subject, but manages to burrow underneath the Englishman’s carefully crafted persona to find the fragile, lonely, very funny 84-year-old underneath. Nossiter’s accomplishment seems all the more remarkable when you consider that Crisp views life as performance art
THE WASHINGTON POST

Resident Alien is remarkable….Nossiter’s film is fine looking…a fascinating look at New York in flux
DVD VERDICT

Gay pioneer Quentin Crisp’s life in New York City is chronicled in this ragingly funny documentary
ROTTEN TOMATOES

An Enigma
FILM CRITIC

Presents you with the flamboyant lifestyle of a true original, offering insight into a man who listens to a different drummer as he confronts life on his own term
TV GUIDE

A charming portrait of Quentin Crisp…this is certainly a sympathetic documentary which may even provoke a grudging admiration from the viewer
ALL MOVIE GUIDE

With Crisp now deceased, RESIDENT ALIEN stands as a living testimony to one man’s singular gift to the world—himself
DOCURAMA