The movie reviewer for "US" magazine says it's really a "Romeo and Romeo" love story and that this film is a natural progression of the development toward a big screen production of gay love.
The film has been praised for it's R rated approach to a male on male sex scene. Yet Roger Ebert had a problem with known "conservative" Vincent Gallo including a scene of male/female oral sex (with his former real life lover) in Brown Bunny.
In fact, Rog trashed that film completely and discussed audiences at Cannes booing. When the film came around to general release, he dropped his pissing contest and said it was a decent film.
Who cares what the critics think? Rog has had that thumb where the sun don't shine for the past decade. His "votes" are worthless without Siskel.