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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Mathew Rodriguez The usual bits of any mystery are there...and they are well-realized and compelling. But Knives Out has always been a franchise using the conventions of mystery to render social commentary. And in that effort, Wake Up Dead Man succeeds.
Posted Dec 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked: For Good (2025) Mathew Rodriguez If the first installment promised to defy gravity, its second installment is nothing but chess pieces finally succumbing to it, with even more unwelcome narrative bloat distending and distorting the musical’s final few beats.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Peter Hujar's Day (2025) Abby Monteil Of course, the fact that the film remains warmly engaging throughout its runtime is a major testament to both Whishaw and Hall’s talents.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Hedda (2025) Abby Monteil Indeed, it’s DaCosta’s absolutely fearless take on the classic play that makes this an electric showcase for Thompson — particularly through its newfound sapphic storyline.
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Blue Moon (2025) Michael Cuby Although quite stagy by design (it’s extremely heavy on monologues), the film feels appropriately cinematic thanks to the central performance from Ethan Hawke...
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) Blythe Marks Spider Woman the movie, while certainly not Lynchian in form, serves as an instruction manual for the ways queer and trans people can learn to weave together an image of themselves from the discard pile of dominant culture.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
After the Hunt (2025) Mathew Rodriguez Given Guadagnino’s massive directorial talents, you can’t help but feel like there’s a much better version of this movie somewhere and that he either dropped the ball or was led astray by a tryhard script.
Posted Oct 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Honey Don't! (2025) James Factora The actors certainly do the best with the material that they’re given, but much of the writing and plot construction is, to be frank, bafflingly terrible. Sadly, I don’t mean that in a “so bad it’s good” kind of way either...
Posted Aug 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Boys Go to Jupiter (2024) James Factora Though Boys Go To Jupiter is a coming-of-age film, it’s injected with an overt sense of class consciousness that’s glaringly absent from others in its genre.
Posted Aug 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Ponyboi (2024) Michael Cuby Like its central character, Ponyboi is a film that confidently exists in the in-between. It’s as much a coming-of-age story about figuring oneself out as it is a chilling nail-biter about a drug deal that goes wrong...
Posted Jul 09, 2025  Edit critic review
One of Them Days (2025) James Factora Palmer’s impeccable line delivery is the absolute highlights of One of Them Days — and that’s really saying something, considering that the incredibly funny Katt Williams and Janelle James also have (admittedly smaller) roles in the film.
Posted Jan 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Chasing Chasing Amy (2023) Samantha Allen These inner dramas eventually take center stage, with Rodgers ultimately realizing that whatever mysterious purpose Chasing Amy played in his life has since been fulfilled, replaced with more meaningful growth.
Posted Nov 05, 2024  Edit critic review
The Substance (2024) Abby Monteil Your enjoyment of the movie will chiefly depend on willing you are to buy into its absurdist heightened reality, which has very little interest in anything resembling real-life 2024.
Posted Sep 26, 2024  Edit critic review
Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln (2024) Mathew Rodriguez While the film makes incisive cuts into Lincoln’s personal life, Lover of Men ultimately has too much reverence for him, rehashing the trite characterization of the man as an untouchable political demigod.
Posted Sep 20, 2024  Edit critic review
Will & Harper (2024) Samantha Allen Will & Harper is a revelatory and daringly honest look at the evolving relationship between its two subjects, and also an older trans woman’s affection for her country.
Posted Sep 14, 2024  Edit critic review
Sing Sing (2023) James Factora Beyond the general excellence of Domingo’s performance, Sing Sing grants a level of humanity to people in prison that is rarely ever bestowed upon them, especially incarcerated Black men.
Posted Aug 16, 2024  Edit critic review
National Anthem (2023) Samantha Allen Photographer Luke Gilford’s directorial debut is a stirring portrait of gay rodeo life.
Posted Jul 25, 2024  Edit critic review
MaXXXine (2024) Mathew Rodriguez None of the information learned in MaXXXine is revelatory and the final 20 minutes take a narrative swerve that rob the character of any growth, and indeed feel like wasted time.
Posted Jul 08, 2024  Edit critic review
My Old Ass (2024) Samantha Allen In all seriousness, it’s refreshing to see someone put this refreshing twist on the queer coming-of-age subgenre.
Posted Jun 27, 2024  Edit critic review
Challengers (2024) Samantha Allen What no words can capture, though, is just how fun Challengers is to watch.
Posted Apr 26, 2024  Edit critic review
The People's Joker (2022) Rendy Jones The Batman parody trans people need and deserve.
Posted Apr 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Femme (2023) Naveen Kumar More than simply a provocative thriller, Femme is a nervy and unflinching exploration of shame, power, and the pleasures of transgression.
Posted Apr 05, 2024  Edit critic review
All of Us Strangers (2023) Naveen Kumar Although rooted in the specificity of Adam’s grief as an orphaned only child, the film ultimately reveals raw nerves that many queer people have experienced firsthand.
Posted Dec 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Saltburn (2023) Abby Monteil While there are traces of underlying poison laced throughout these sumptuous visuals, Saltburn is more invested in its own aesthetics than it is in its ostensible class satire.
Posted Nov 17, 2023  Edit critic review
Anatomy of a Fall (2023) Rendy Jones Anatomy of a Fall is an intoxicating courtroom drama with meticulous filmmaking and masterful performances.
Posted Oct 17, 2023  Edit critic review
Down Low (2023) Samantha Allen Whenever a wild exponent like Gage is on screen — which is basically all of this near two-hander’s runtime — you feel like the film could go pretty much anywhere, and it does.
Posted Oct 10, 2023  Edit critic review
Rotting in the Sun (2023) Samantha Allen ... The year’s most delicious and darkly funny comedy.
Posted Sep 18, 2023  Edit critic review
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2022) Rendy Jones Bolstered by Max Pelayo and Reese Gonzales’s genuine chemistry, Alberto’s heartwarming direction makes this a film that shouldn’t be kept secret.
Posted Sep 08, 2023  Edit critic review
Bottoms (2023) Abby Monteil ... If you’ve ever found yourself longing for a film that jammed the shamelessly goofy horndog antics of teen sex comedies and the surrealism of films like Heathers into a very gay, very bloody package, Bottoms is the film you’ve been waiting for.
Posted Aug 24, 2023  Edit critic review
Bad Things (2023) Rendy Jones Bad Things certainly won’t have Stanley Kubrick rolling in his grave; if anything, one can hope he’d be waving a rainbow flag.
Posted Aug 19, 2023  Edit critic review
Red, White & Royal Blue (2023) Mathew Rodriguez While Lopez brings an assured hand to the direction and writing, the film truly sings thanks to the chemistry between its leads...
Posted Aug 11, 2023  Edit critic review
Barbie (2023) Abby Monteil Barbie might not be an overtly queer film, but at the end of the day, its campy heart owes a whole lot to the dolls.
Posted Jul 20, 2023  Edit critic review
Theater Camp (2023) Mathew Rodriguez Theater Camp may not be a documentary, but its teachers do need nuance to be believed off the page and, too often, Theater Camp’s characterizations feel less lived-in than a new pair of character shoes.
Posted Jul 14, 2023  Edit critic review
Bad Girl Boogey (2022) Samantha Allen ... An unabashedly queer film that effectively captures a certain punky queer Gen Z aesthetic.
Posted Jul 06, 2023  Edit critic review
Blue Jean (2022) Sara Clements The Thatcherite Britain of Blue Jean is an eerie mirror for the present as Georgia Oakley’s stirring debut feature tells a profoundly moving story of a closeted lesbian teacher at a crossroads.
Posted Jun 08, 2023  Edit critic review
Scream VI (2023) Rendy Jones After maintaining a fresh tone and building on the groundwork laid by last year’s entry, the climax pivots to nonsensical cartoonish territory, demanding the audiences suspend disbelief and equipping too many characters with heavy plot armor.
Posted Mar 10, 2023  Edit critic review
Aftersun (2022) Billy McEntee By embracing the polysemous instead of rushing to define her lead character, Wells has given us a feature that exists somewhere between capital-Q queer cinema and a more lowercase approach.
Posted Mar 09, 2023  Edit critic review
Of an Age (2022) Naveen Kumar Stolevski’s coming-of-age story... captures the very recent phenomenon of having learned to love in secret but becoming a queer adult amid great strides in social acceptance.
Posted Feb 18, 2023  Edit critic review
Attachment (2022) Samantha Allen It’s grimly funny in moments, but also poignant in its exploration of thwarted connection.
Posted Feb 10, 2023  Edit critic review
Knock at the Cabin (2023) Samantha Allen I will say that it made me do two things I never expected to do while watching an M. Night Shyamalan film: cry and feel proud to be queer.
Posted Feb 07, 2023  Edit critic review
1985 (2018) Michael Cuby In spite of its somber source material, 1985 finds a surprisingly happy note to end on.
Posted Nov 16, 2022  Edit critic review
Sorry Angel (2018) Michael Cuby By the time the couple confronts the unfortunate reality of their ill-fated romance, you’ve already fallen in love with both.
Posted Nov 16, 2022  Edit critic review
Mario (2018) Michael Cuby Though [it] still hits predictable topics — the closet, casual locker room homophobia, the threat of lost sponsorships should their secret emerge — it’s equally invested in developing its central love story, which is rare.
Posted Nov 16, 2022  Edit critic review
Diamantino (2018) Michael Cuby Diamantino is unlike anything else I’ve ever seen, and it’s all the better because of it.
Posted Nov 16, 2022  Edit critic review
Knife + Heart (2018) Michael Cuby This French film is every bit as sexy as it is harrowing. It’s an edge-of-your-seat thriller imbued with the power of seduction.
Posted Nov 16, 2022  Edit critic review
Devil's Path (2018) Michael Cuby Though it focuses on only two characters, Devil’s Path, like any good thriller, makes it difficult for the viewer to trust even them.
Posted Nov 16, 2022  Edit critic review
Rafiki (2018) Michael Cuby Shot in beautiful settings with cinematography awash in bright colors, the movie is a stunning, gorgeous achievement for all involved.
Posted Nov 16, 2022  Edit critic review
Solace (2017) Michael Cuby Solace is a story about protest art that acts as a piece of protest art itself.
Posted Nov 16, 2022  Edit critic review
Daddy (2015) Michael Cuby ...the movie asks us to consider whether or not true love can ever transcend class differences...
Posted Nov 16, 2022  Edit critic review
The Times of Bill Cunningham (2018) Michael Cuby Its real juice lies in stories about how Bill's staunchly Catholic upbringing may have impacted his later decisions, which are eye-opening and heartbreaking in equal measure.
Posted Nov 16, 2022  Edit critic review
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