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John Paul King

John Paul King's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “Visually masterful, superbly performed, and flawlessly delivered by a cinematic master, it’s a movie that, like it or not, confronts us with the discomforting reality we face, and there’s nobody to save it from us but ourselves. ” – Washington Blade Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% EDIT “Whatever else can be said about Josh Safdie’s wild ride of a sports comedy it has accomplished exactly that rare magic, because the title character might very well be the role that Timothée Chalamet was born to play. ” – Washington Blade Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% EDIT “We can’t presume to speak for Shakespeare, but we are pretty sure he would be pleased. ” – Washington Blade Jan 12, 2026 Full Review Pillion (2025) 100% EDIT “A film to admire from a promising new queer director, shining a light on an insular culture within the larger rainbow community with intelligence, dignity, and a refreshing lack of the homophobic tropes that so often haunt queer movies.” – Washington Blade Dec 24, 2025 Full Review 300letters (2025) EDIT “In the starring roles, Mariani and Frías are equally charismatic in their own distinctive way, capturing a chemistry that both “clicks” and doesn’t at the same time.” – Washington Blade Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Hedda (2025) 89% EDIT “Sumptuously realized into a glowing and nostalgic pageant of bad behavior in the upper-middle-class, “Hedda” scores big by abandoning Ibsen’s original 19th-century setting in favor of a more recognizably modern milieu.” – Washington Blade Nov 24, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% EDIT “In the end, though, it leaves us with the awareness that any victory over such evil can only ever be a measured against the loss and tragedy that is left in its wake – and that the best victory of all is to stop it before it starts.” – Washington Blade Nov 17, 2025 Full Review Peter Hujar's Day (2025) 92% EDIT “Has an appeal that transcends its rarified portrait of time, place, and personality. It recognizes that it’s what can be read between the lines of our lives that matters, and that’s an insight that’s often lost in the whirlwind of our quotidian existence.” – Washington Blade Nov 10, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 90% EDIT “While the acting in Blue Moon may be excellent across the board, it’s Linklater’s direction that drives his cast’s work and ties it all together.” – Washington Blade Nov 3, 2025 Full Review Queens of the Dead (2025) 83% EDIT “Entertaining, smart, and surprisingly light-hearted for all its zombie carnage, “Queens of the Dead” is one of those hidden gems of a movie that has all the earmarks of a cult classic. ” – Washington Blade Oct 27, 2025 Full Review Riefenstahl (2024) 97% EDIT “Riefenstahl weaves a hypnotic effect that makes its two-hour runtime drift by like a dream, but there’s a meticulous logic and a rigorous empiricism to it all that crystallizes the facts in a way that’s entirely rational...” – Washington Blade Oct 6, 2025 Full Review Plainclothes (2025) 83% EDIT “It’s a small film, and one that feels even more intimate than its smallness might suggest, but that’s part of its winning strength.” – Washington Blade Sep 25, 2025 Full Review The History of Sound (2025) 70% EDIT “What elevates it beyond that bittersweet validation of queer love, in all its devastating cultural inconvenience, is its profoundly felt embrace of music as an ongoing record of human existence.” – Washington Blade Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Twinless (2025) 97% EDIT “Twinless imagines a pathway back to basics, out of the tangled web of identity and custom to an understanding that yes, love is truly just love – and it defies labels, limitations, or legality. ” – Washington Blade Sep 4, 2025 Full Review Honey Don't! (2025) 45% EDIT “It’s a wild-and-wooly, ludicrous tale, a self-aware exercise in style which winds its bemusedly hard-edged mystery around a core that mirrors both the cynicism and the romance of its hard-boiled neo-noir inspirations. ” – Washington Blade Sep 2, 2025 Full Review Boys Go to Jupiter (2024) 93% EDIT “Goofy, trippy to look at, full of absurd touches that make us laugh with their silliness even while they touch us to the core and occasionally shock us with their accuracy, it has all the hallmarks of an old-school animated cult classic.” – Washington Blade Aug 14, 2025 Full Review Sunset Boulevard (1950) 98% EDIT “Ultimately, though, what matters most of all is that it is a film with universal appeal — a timeless story, despite its aging stylistic and technical contributions. The fact that it remains so after 75 years is testament of the universal power of cinema.” – Washington Blade Aug 7, 2025 Full Review Taxi to the Toilet (1980) 96% EDIT “While we may thrill at recognizing ourselves in its seminal portrait of liberated gay sexuality, it’s the still-potent longing to reconcile our conflicted impulses that speaks to us most urgently.” – Washington Blade Jul 31, 2025 Full Review Eddington (2025) 68% EDIT “Indeed, in the end, Aster’s movie is chillingly unsettling, leading us through a labyrinth of cause-and-effect inevitabilities and delivering us, finally, to a place that feels both disconcertingly unresolved and alarmingly familiar.” – Washington Blade Jul 25, 2025 Full Review Superman (2025) 83% EDIT “Corenswet brings an everyman likability to his larger-than-life character, within which all his nods to ethical purity feel like a triumph instead of a capitulation to comfortable sentiment. ” – Washington Blade Jul 16, 2025 Full Review Enigma (2025) EDIT “The contrast between the life each of these women chose to live speaks volumes, and makes “Enigma” into one of the most interesting — and truthful — trans documentaries to emerge thus far.” – Washington Blade Jul 7, 2025 Full Review I'm Your Venus (2024) EDIT “Ultimately, Venus is still the star of the show, her authentic and unvarnished truth remaining eloquent despite the passage of more than 40 years.” – Washington Blade Jul 7, 2025 Full Review Brokeback Mountain (2005) 88% EDIT “two decades later, it’s still a beautiful, deeply felt and emotionally resonant piece of cinema, and no matter how good you thought it was the first time, it’s even better than you remember it.” – Washington Blade Jun 23, 2025 Full Review The Phoenician Scheme (2025) 77% EDIT “It might be frustrating, but the payoff is worth it. ” – Washington Blade Jun 12, 2025 Full Review Things Like This (2025) EDIT “After all, it’s as much a “feel-good” movie as it is a love story, and the fact that we actually do feel good when the final credits role is more than enough to earn it our hearty recommendation.” – Washington Blade May 23, 2025 Full Review
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