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Time Cut
(2024)
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Valerie Anne
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Overall the movie was a cute, fun time that coordinates perfectly with its fellow horror comedies, with less gore and genuine scares than Bodies Bodies Bodies, but more gays and heart than its fraternal twin, Totally Killer.
Posted Nov 08, 2024
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Anora
(2024)
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Olivia Hunter Willke
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Anora‘s practically seamless tonal shifts and sharp performances make for a strong, defined comedy with dramatic weight. Although the film carries its head high for nearly the entire runtime, it might just undersell itself in the last moments.
Posted Oct 18, 2024
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Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara
(2024)
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Drew Gregory
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The film makes sure not to pass judgment on any of the victims of the Tegan impersonator, but it does reveal the gaps in some of their expectations of Tegan vs. the real lived experiences of the artist.
Posted Oct 17, 2024
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The Wild Robot
(2024)
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Em Win
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Sanders’ groundbreaking animated feature is a comment on the current and projected state of humanity. From the impacts of global warming to the reliance on robots, it’s surely a warning sign.
Posted Oct 13, 2024
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Megalopolis
(2024)
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Drew Gregory
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I don’t compare Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-long passion project to Jennifer Lopez’s visual album as a critique. Both projects are self-funded tributes to the power of love and marriage that lead with gargantuan sincerity and bonkers visual effects.
Posted Sep 30, 2024
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French Girl
(2024)
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Drew Gregory
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I just can’t believe this movie came out this year instead of twenty years ago.
Posted Sep 30, 2024
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I'll Be Right There
(2024)
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Drew Gregory
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Since this is an actor-driven film, the flat visuals and standard formal approach would be fine if it weren’t for a distracting score that feels like iMovie temp music titled Indie Dramedy.
Posted Sep 30, 2024
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My Old Ass
(2024)
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Gabrielle Grace Hogan
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While the intent of the film — to show our older selves that the choices we make are inherent to our humanity, and should not be sought to be changed unless we change who we are — is beautiful, the execution is at best sloppy.
Posted Sep 25, 2024
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Bird
(2024)
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Drew Gregory
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Bird is Andrea Arnold’s most ambitious work. It also might be her truest masterpiece.
Posted Sep 14, 2024
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The Shrouds
(2024)
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Drew Gregory
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With every passing moment of the often enthralling, occasionally tedious new film from David Cronenberg, it becomes more confounding, more perverted, and, ultimately, more accomplished.
Posted Sep 13, 2024
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Nineteen
(2024)
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Drew Gregory
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Unfortunately, Tortorici’s story is not as exciting as his craft.
Posted Sep 13, 2024
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The Substance
(2024)
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Drew Gregory
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For a movie that won Best Screenplay at Cannes, it relies too much on its performances and style to make up for writing that, well, lacks in substance.
Posted Sep 13, 2024
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Sad Jokes
(2024)
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Drew Gregory
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Stumm forces us to sit in each moment, the audience never knowing whether we’re about to laugh or cry or both.
Posted Sep 13, 2024
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Will & Harper
(2024)
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Drew Gregory
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Just like Will doesn’t have to be perfect to be a great friend to Harper, this documentary doesn’t need to be perfect to be meaningful.
Posted Sep 13, 2024
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Queer
(2024)
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Drew Gregory
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The film has the kind of carnal gay sex we rarely see on-screen — at least not in English language films of this budget.
Posted Sep 13, 2024
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Babygirl
(2024)
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Drew Gregory
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For every sex scene that will cause you to writhe in your seat, there’s a line of dialogue or a glance shared between actors that reveals new layers to Reijn’s confident intent.
Posted Sep 13, 2024
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Nightbitch
(2024)
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Drew Gregory
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The complete failure of this movie’s themes wouldn’t matter as much if it worked as a film.
Posted Sep 10, 2024
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Really Happy Someday
(2024)
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Drew Gregory
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Z’s vocal change acts as a microcosm for being trans, a literalization of how awkward it can be to step into oneself.
Posted Sep 10, 2024
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On Swift Horses
(2024)
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Drew Gregory
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Jacob Elordi has never looked better and never been better.
Posted Sep 10, 2024
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Emilia Pérez
(2024)
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Drew Gregory
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It’s not about offense or something being not allowed. It’s that it’s boring. I don’t understand why a movie that’s so bonkers in other ways chooses to undercut its strengths with this shallow understanding of its titular character.
Posted Sep 10, 2024
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Rez Ball
(2024)
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Drew Gregory
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Freeland’s skill and experience are on full display here, especially during the basketball sequences.
Posted Sep 10, 2024
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The Room Next Door
(2024)
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Drew Gregory
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If Pain and Glory was a reckoning with self and Parallel Mothers a reckoning with Spain, The Room Next Door is a reckoning with the entire world.
Posted Sep 10, 2024
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Bonjour Tristesse
(2024)
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Drew Gregory
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Chew-Bose does not rest on the ease of her scenery. There is a formal confidence, exciting from a first-time filmmaker, a deep understanding of cinema as a craft and all it can accomplish beyond the page.
Posted Sep 07, 2024
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Went Up the Hill
(2024)
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Drew Gregory
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There are moments in this film that are genuinely terrifying — the story oscillating between quiet drama and horror.
Posted Sep 07, 2024
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Something in the Water
(2024)
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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
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Still, it’s a mostly fun late-summer film, would likely go down easy with a drinking game.
Posted Sep 06, 2024
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The Killer
(2024)
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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
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I don’t need Girl Power™ from my assassin movies; I want to see women in complex and morally complicated roles.
Posted Aug 23, 2024
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Crossing
(2024)
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Lisa Laman
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While it doesn’t break new ground visually, Crossing still registers as a perfectly agreeable watch.
Posted Jul 24, 2024
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By Hook or by Crook
(2001)
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Stef Rubino
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It’s a snapshot of what survival often looks like for people who are trying to make due with the scraps that are thrown at them from the oppressive systems that govern our world.
Posted Jul 09, 2024
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Hummingbirds
(2023)
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Drew Gregory
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With a tight edit and gorgeous cinematography, Hummingbirds is the best kind of low-key documentary. Its power is subtle, its pleasures many.
Posted Jul 05, 2024
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Kinds of Kindness
(2024)
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Stef Rubino
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The three stories in Kinds of Kindness... reflect the parts of our humanity that we try to ignore, destroy, and, in the worst circumstances, distort in order to feel better about ourselves.
Posted Jul 02, 2024
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Fancy Dance
(2023)
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Rendy Jones
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An essential, important Indigenous drama. It’s eye-opening in the subject matter it tackles, while also being a well-told familial tale.
Posted Jun 28, 2024
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Janet Planet
(2023)
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Drew Gregory
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Whether you’re a longtime fan of Annie Baker’s plays, or meeting her work for the first time, Janet Planet is a rapturous cinematic experience.
Posted Jun 21, 2024
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Chestnut
(2023)
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Drew Gregory
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We’ve seen the storyline of “straight girl/maybe closeted girl emotionally terrorizes a queer woman” on-screen many times. But I appreciate how that was complicated here.
Posted Jun 21, 2024
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Power of the Dream
(2024)
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Nic
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I enjoyed watching it 1) because of its timing, as you said, and 2) because while I knew the broad strokes of the W’s involvement with Say Her Name, Black Lives Matter, and Senator Warnock’s eventual election...
Posted Jun 18, 2024
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Power of the Dream
(2024)
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Natalie
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There’s definitely a sense of “we’re not new to this, we’re true to this” that comes along with watching this doc…
Posted Jun 18, 2024
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Beautiful Rebel
(2024)
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Drew Gregory
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If you want to learn more about Gianna Nannini, read her Wikipedia page. If you want to watch a movie about queer women, there are plenty of better options.
Posted Jun 18, 2024
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Cora Bora
(2023)
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Drew Gregory
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The humor of its first half feels forced and muddled, only for the film to settle into itself, embracing drama and, with that embrace, earning even more laughs.
Posted Jun 18, 2024
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Summer Solstice
(2023)
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Drew Gregory
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It’s a low-budget film that embraces its limitations, capturing its excellent writing and performances with a simple yet confident form.
Posted Jun 18, 2024
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Backspot
(2023)
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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
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A visceral and dynamic sports film so centered on girlhood in ways that feel exciting and original, but a lot of that work is done by the directing more than the script itself. Regardless, it’s a striking entry into the queerleading canon...
Posted Jun 03, 2024
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Queen of the Deuce
(2022)
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Sa'iyda Shabazz
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After watching Queen of the Deuce I feel like I had a lot more questions about Chelly Wilson than I did when I started watching.
Posted May 24, 2024
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
(2024)
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Lisa Laman
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Even if one never picks up on any allegorically trans material in Furiosa, there’s still plenty to be enraptured by here. For one, George Miller is still the master and commander of vehicle chase scenes in cinema.
Posted May 24, 2024
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If These Walls Could Talk 2
(2000)
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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
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If These Walls Could Talk 2 asserts that lesbian couples could make their own families, make their own joy, even in times of rampant homophobia and sexism
Posted May 15, 2024
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She's the Man
(2006)
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Gabe Dunn
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It’s a very solid, very funny teen comedy.
Posted May 06, 2024
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Prom Dates
(2024)
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Sa'iyda Shabazz
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It feels like they were trying to go for a female-led Superbad, but the end result falls flat. The characters aren’t interesting enough, and I don’t think I did much more than chuckle the whole time.
Posted May 03, 2024
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But I'm a Cheerleader
(1999)
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Riese Bernard
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The film manages to take these dark feelings of shame and confusion, of family rejection and religious persecution and betrayal, and make it funny and cool and even a little romantic.
Posted Apr 30, 2024
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Appropriate Behavior
(2014)
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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
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Akhavan has no problem making us stay close and personal. Shirin holds people at a distance, but Akhavan’s approach to filmmaking is intensely intimate.
Posted Apr 23, 2024
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Girls State
(2024)
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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
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Girls State isn’t quite the explosive takedown and critique of the program that it could be, but it does explore the program's limitations cogently...
Posted Apr 22, 2024
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Challengers
(2024)
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Drew Gregory
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Zendaya is so good in this role, it’s impossible to imagine anyone else playing it. She utilizes her celebrity as well as her acting talent to create a larger than life figure still recognizable and human.
Posted Apr 12, 2024
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Monkey Man
(2024)
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Aamina Inayat Khan
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Maybe the format doesn’t blow our minds—it hits the familiar beats of a long-popular genre—and yet its radical because action movies have historically shown the military and police in favorable light.
Posted Apr 05, 2024
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Barbie
(2023)
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Juan Barquin
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Beneath all the laughs at the expense of men and women is the sad truth that this brand of essentialism itself, of separating Barbies from Kens, of emphasizing their differences, is the thing that damages us the most.
Posted Apr 05, 2024
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