Sundance 2025: ‘Rains Over Babel’ Is Queer Cinema That’s Wholesome and Transgressive
This has been a terrible week to be trans in the U.S. and I’m so grateful I could take a break and spend a couple hours in Gala del Sol’s fantastical world.
Sundance 2025: ‘Come See Me in the Good Light’ Is More Than Andrea Gibson’s Cancer Story — It’s Their Love Story
This film isn’t a straight-forward artist portrait. It’s a portrait of Gibson and their partner, fellow poet Megan Falley, as they navigate Gibson’s incurable cancer diagnosis. It’s a tender look at two queer people in love and a celebration of the desire to live.
Sundance 2025: ‘Sauna’ Tells a New Trans Story the Same Old Way
It’s technically true that I cannot think of another feature film about a cis gay man grappling with his feelings about dating a trans man for the first time. So why does Mathias Broe’s Sauna feel so dated and predictable?
Sundance 2025: ‘Where the Wind Comes From’ Gives Us a Queer Girl/Guy Best Friend Platonic Love Story
There’s a propulsive energy to the film that makes it a blast to watch even as the characters face hardships.
Sundance 2025: ‘Jimpa’ Should Have Embraced Its Straight Protagonist
If someone watching this film had never met a queer person, they’d assume “dancing in slow motion” was what we were all about.
‘Emilia Pérez’ Is the Most Unique Cis Nonsense You’ll Ever See
There are many bad movies made by cis writers and directors about trans women. But you’ve never seen a bad movie about a trans woman like Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez.
‘Babygirl’ Is As Smart as It Is Hot — And It’s Really Hot
There are limits and boundaries that vanish outside the paradigm of heterosexual expectations.
I Watched ‘The Holiday Junkie’ With My Wife and It Was Sweeter Than a Peppermint Latte
Jennifer Love Hewitt’s latest Lifetime Christmas movie has a lesbian best friend who wears shoes on the bed.
‘The Room Next Door’ Is Almodóvar’s Tribute to Life Through Death
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.
Christmas Horror Movie ‘You Are Not Me’ Puts a Queer Spin on Meeting the Parents
The greatest terror is not meeting a partner’s parents, but through your partner meeting your own parents anew.
In ‘Queer’ Bicurious Boys Are Another Addiction
This isn’t just a film about queer characters with a queer form — it’s also a film with very specifically queer motivations and conflicts.
‘A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter’ Makes the Yuletide Gay and Horny
Sabrina Carpenter gives the gays everything they want this Christmas.
‘(This Is Not) A Christmas Movie’ Is Not a Very Good Christmas Movie, but It Does Have a Queer Sex Scene
The Dutch comedy attempts to destroy the typical holiday movie formula but self-destructs in the process.
In ‘Power Alley,’ Bodily Autonomy Is a Team Sport
While the plot is primarily focused on abortion access, the film is also an essential portrait of another overly politicized issue: trans teens in sports.
‘Time Cut’ Is a Silly Slasher with a Sapphic Subplot
The queer reveal is presented as a twist, and while I’m sure it surprised straight viewers, sleuthy queers will probably pick up on it.
Annie Baker’s ‘Janet Planet’ Captures the Beautiful Hell of Queer Childhood
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.
‘Anora’ Doesn’t Judge Its Sex Worker Protagonist — Is That Enough?
Although the film carries its head high for nearly the entire runtime, it might just undersell itself in the last moments. Absence of judgment does not necessarily give way to a mature reading of the character’s inner life and emotional drives.
‘Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara’ Is a Compassionate Mystery of a Parasocial Nightmare
The investigation that most needs to occur is an internal investigation done by all of us about how we think about celebrity and parasocial relationships.
‘The Wild Robot’ Is an Unexpected Depiction of Queer Found Family
This may be a sizzling hot take, but Chris Sanders’ The Wild Robot is a queer film.
Monsters & Mommis: “Cat People” and “The Seventh Victim” Come Out of the Closet
The real horror is straight people.