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One Battle After Another (2025) John Paul King 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.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) John Paul King 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.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Hamnet (2025) John Paul King We can’t presume to speak for Shakespeare, but we are pretty sure he would be pleased.
Posted Jan 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Pillion (2025) John Paul King 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.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
300letters (2025) John Paul King 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.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Hedda (2025) John Paul King 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.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Nuremberg (2025) John Paul King 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.
Posted Nov 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Peter Hujar's Day (2025) John Paul King 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.
Posted Nov 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Blue Moon (2025) John Paul King 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.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Queens of the Dead (2025) John Paul King 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.
Posted Oct 27, 2025  Edit critic review
The Celluloid Closet (1995) Matthew Cibellis Well-written, well-conceived, well-filmed with a strong narrative sense, Celluloid unearths an important chunk of American history without ever stooping to didacticism or simple rhetoric.
Posted Oct 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Riefenstahl (2024) John Paul King 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...
Posted Oct 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Plainclothes (2025) John Paul King 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.
Posted Sep 25, 2025  Edit critic review
The History of Sound (2025) John Paul King 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.
Posted Sep 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Twinless (2025) John Paul King 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.
Posted Sep 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Honey Don't! (2025) John Paul King 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.
Posted Sep 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Boys Go to Jupiter (2024) John Paul King 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.
Posted Aug 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Sunset Boulevard (1950) John Paul King 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.
Posted Aug 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Taxi to the Toilet (1980) John Paul King 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.
Posted Jul 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Eddington (2025) John Paul King 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.
Posted Jul 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman (2025) John Paul King 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.
Posted Jul 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Enigma (2025) John Paul King 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.
Posted Jul 07, 2025  Edit critic review
I'm Your Venus (2024) John Paul King Ultimately, Venus is still the star of the show, her authentic and unvarnished truth remaining eloquent despite the passage of more than 40 years.
Posted Jul 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Brokeback Mountain (2005) John Paul King 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.
Posted Jun 23, 2025  Edit critic review
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) John Paul King It might be frustrating, but the payoff is worth it.
Posted Jun 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Things Like This (2025) John Paul King 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.
Posted May 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Pink Narcissus (1971) John Paul King It’s the irrefutable evidence of queer joy singing out to us from a time when it could only exist in our most private of moments; it’s unapologetically campy, over the top in its theatricality...
Posted May 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Lavender Men (2024) John Paul King Refreshingly unpretentious, acknowledging its own campiness without undercutting the authenticity of the voice which drives it – which is, of course, Mason’s.
Posted May 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Egghead & Twinkie (2023) John Paul King The love it lifts up is the kind ultimately has little to do with questions of sexual identity... the kind that transcends biology and sexuality to express something arguably more essential – the genuine emotional bond between two kindred souls.
Posted Apr 24, 2025  Edit critic review
The Wedding Banquet (2025) John Paul King “The Wedding Banquet” makes for a perfect opportunity to entertain and validate ourselves – and even if it doesn’t tickle your funny bone, it’s a generous enough feast for your queer soul that it deserves you to see it.
Posted Apr 17, 2025  Edit critic review
A Nice Indian Boy (2024) John Paul King Combined with the sharp, funny, and insightful script and the generosity of Sethi’s directorial approach, which frames each character with respect and import to the story, it all makes “A Nice Indian Boy” a nice crowd-pleasing movie to see.
Posted Apr 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Misericordia (2024) John Paul King What makes “Misericordia” truly resonate is that they never overshadow its deliciously depraved story, nor dilute the finely orchestrated tension his film maintains to keep your heart pounding as you take it all in.
Posted Apr 03, 2025  Edit critic review
The Parenting (2025) John Paul King A brisk, clever, saucy, and yes, campy piece of entertainment that will keep you smiling almost all the way through its hour-and-a-half runtime, with the much-appreciated bonus of an endearing queer romance.
Posted Mar 24, 2025  Edit critic review
The Visitor (2024) John Paul King Celebratory in its depravity and unflinching in its fully pornographic (and unsimulated) depictions of sex, from the blissfully erotic to the grotesquely bestial, it seems determined to fight stigma with saturation.
Posted Mar 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Stockade (2023) John Paul King An intriguing and occasionally thrilling film experience, and one which will, most likely, become more so with repeated viewings.
Posted Feb 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Flow (2024) John Paul King Zilbalodis’s film is an immersive ride, full of visceral and frequently harrowing moments that may produce some anxiety and conceptual shifts that may challenge your expectations — but it is a ride well worth taking.
Posted Feb 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Memoir of a Snail (2024) John Paul King Visually lovely, with an array of memorable voice performances and a delicious balance of humor ranging from silly to the macabre.
Posted Feb 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story (2024) John Paul King It comes off not just as a well-deserved tribute, but a welcome reminder that she is, and always was, a force to be reckoned with.
Posted Jan 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Babygirl (2024) John Paul King A deliciously provocative, visually stylish piece of boldly countercultural filmmaking, that dares to suggest that the path to personal growth sometimes lies through kinky, forbidden sex.
Posted Jan 17, 2025  Edit critic review
The Brutalist (2024) John Paul King Like the architectural style embraced by its title character, “The Brutalist” is monumental, a construction of high ceilings and ornate furnishings that is somehow streamlined into a minimalist, functional whole.
Posted Jan 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Nightbitch (2024) John Paul King The quality of these performances help to push “Nightbitch” beyond its genre pretensions and use it to express feelings that will doubtless be familiar to millions of woman, yet are rarely explored onscreen.
Posted Dec 24, 2024  Edit critic review
Queer (2024) John Paul King While it may not be the kind of inspirational call to arms many of us feel we need right now, it still earns our recommendation as one of the standout films of the year.
Posted Dec 16, 2024  Edit critic review
Maria (2024) John Paul King A fascinating and deeply affecting film, addressing matters of life and death as vast as the ones that drove the timeless musical masterworks in which Callas made her name.
Posted Dec 07, 2024  Edit critic review
Close to You (2023) John Paul King It takes the audience in close, to provide a tangible feeling of intimacy and connect us to the emotional perspective of everyone involved.
Posted Nov 18, 2024  Edit critic review
Conclave (2024) John Paul King All this A-list quality certainly succeeds in making Berger’s movie into an engaging, intelligent, and visually impressive piece of populist cinema.
Posted Nov 11, 2024  Edit critic review
Sebastian (2024) John Paul King In the end, “Sebastian” satisfies as a character study, and as a journey of self-acceptance, largely thanks to a charismatic, layered, thoroughly authentic performance from Mollica.
Posted Nov 06, 2024  Edit critic review
Anora (2024) John Paul King It’s one of those rare films that, even though it is crafted with excellence from every contributor, somehow manages still to be greater than the sum of its parts.
Posted Oct 28, 2024  Edit critic review
Apocalypse Now (1979) Tom Huhn It doesn't work. Apocalypse Now is a confused failure, like a once-brilliant philosopher who paces the floor staring at his feet, concocting a vast moral order based upon configurations of shoelaces.
Posted Sep 22, 2024  Edit critic review
Unfightable (2024) John Paul King A harrowing, heartbreaking, and ultimately inspiring portrait of Alana McLaughlin.
Posted Sep 18, 2024  Edit critic review
Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln (2024) John Paul King “Lover of Men” never tries to claim, unequivocally, that Lincoln belonged in the LGBTQ rainbow, only that the likely probability that he did is worthy of consideration.
Posted Sep 09, 2024  Edit critic review
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