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The Queer Review

The Queer Review is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Eric Langberg, James Kleinmann.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
5/5
Barbara Forever (2026) James Kleinmann Tenderly-crated...as sensual, intimate and uninhibited as much of the work of its prolific subject, pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Peter Hujar's Day (2025) James Kleinmann "An exquisitely intimate portrait of Hujar’s friendship with Rosenkrantz… truly cinematic & captivating."
Posted Nov 12, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Blue Moon (2025) James Kleinmann A riveting chamber piece powered by an impeccable, tour-de-force lead performance.
Posted Sep 12, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Deaf President Now! (2025) James Kleinmann The compelling and deeply moving film features a wealth of archive footage, innovative sound design that immerses the viewer in the Deaf perspective, and fascinating new interviews with key figures of the movement.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Assembly (2025) James Kleinmann A rich, extraordinary documentary that takes its lead from Newsome’s expansive, inspiring and invigorating process as an artist.
Posted Jun 12, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Outerlands (2025) James Kleinmann It is an affectingly understated, delicate film and Dillon, with their beautifully expressive face and underlying emotional intensity, proves to be a perfect fit for Oxman's style.
Posted May 21, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Wedding Banquet (2025) James Kleinmann A delightfully warm and uplifting rom-com with heart and soul, and an ensemble cast to die for.
Posted Apr 16, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror (2025) James Kleinmann Lively and engaging...both an insightful chronicle of Rocky Horror’s origins and legacy as well as a heartfelt tribute to its fans that explores its enduring appeal.
Posted Mar 16, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Queerpanorama (2025) James Kleinmann Sexy, provocative and absorbing, with its stylish visuals and distinctive voice, Queerpanorama feels like a film that will be worth revisiting decades from now and that will still have something to say.
Posted Mar 05, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Lesbian Space Princess (2025) James Kleinmann This is the queer animated scifi musical comedy you’ve been looking for.
Posted Feb 25, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Plainclothes (2025) James Kleinmann Although the overwrought visuals detract from the impact of the film, this is still a worthwhile watch, especially for Blyth and Tovey’s first-rate work, and Emmi should be commended for being gutsy enough to experiment.
Posted Feb 07, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Heightened Scrutiny (2025) James Kleinmann Persuasively tracks the direct correlation between media discourse about trans lives and legislation.
Posted Jan 31, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Sauna (2025) James Kleinmann Super sexy and has something to say.
Posted Jan 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
GEN_ (2025) James Kleinmann With its gentle observational lens, GEN_ is a powerful assertion that such personal healthcare decisions, that have a monumental effect on an individual’s life, should be left between a doctor and their patient.
Posted Jan 28, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story (2024) James Kleinmann [A] lively, affectionate yet nuanced portrait of the icon. Part of what makes this film such a delight is getting to spend time in Liza’s company and reveling in the carefully curated archive footage, some of which has never been seen publicly before.
Posted Jan 24, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Better Man (2024) James Kleinmann Thrillingly breathes new life into the genre....raw, honest, and intimate. I was blown away by how deeply affecting the film is, while some of the musical numbers made my heart soar. This is a devastating, healing, and uplifting watch.
Posted Jan 11, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Wicked (2024) James Kleinmann Chu excels here in ensuring the spectacle of this sweeping epic never overwhelms the emotional connection we feel to the characters.
Posted Nov 19, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Close to You (2023) James Kleinmann Delicate and affecting.
Posted Sep 21, 2024  Edit critic review
5/5
Will & Harper (2024) James Kleinmann Key to the success of the film is Will and Harper’s heartwarming rapport and the affection that they share for one another; so naturally funny together, it is a pleasure to be in their company...A deeply moving tribute to friendship.
Posted Sep 21, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Misericordia (2024) James Kleinmann Brilliantly paced, Guiraudie expertly sustains the suspense as the narrative takes some unexpected turns with his spare screenplay that lingers in what remains unspoken between characters.
Posted Sep 07, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Crossing (2024) James Kleinmann Crossing is an unhurried, delicate film but one that is pulsating with life. Keeping his screenplay tight allows Akin to revel in the small details.
Posted Jul 17, 2024  Edit critic review
5/5
I'm Your Venus (2024) James Kleinmann ...Profoundly moving...Ultimately, this is a film about memory, human dignity, the complexity of families and how it is never too late to make amends, to find peace for those left behind and secure the legacy of those we lost to soon.
Posted Jun 13, 2024  Edit critic review
5/5
The People's Joker (2022) James Kleinmann The People’s Joker audaciously revitalizes the genre with its endlessly inventive approach, its fresh and distinctive queer voice, and striking visuals. In fact, this is the best comic movie I’ve seen in years.
Posted Apr 01, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Problemista (2023) James Kleinmann Continually unpredictable and delectably imaginative...For all its cleverness and inventiveness, it is a film with real heart that is ultimately as unexpectedly moving as it is funny.
Posted Mar 02, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Sebastian (2024) James Kleinmann Mollica delivers natural, impeccably delicate work as Max, giving him a compelling intensity, despite the character's composed, purposefully impenetrable exterior
Posted Jan 31, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Stress Positions (2024) James Kleinmann Hammel clearly revels in the irreverence of creating refreshingly messy trans and queer characters
Posted Jan 28, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Desire Lines (2024) James Kleinmann Boldly forges its own hybrid form to explore intimate stories of transmasculine sexuality from the past and present
Posted Jan 26, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Layla (2024) James Kleinmann A pulsating hymn to the defiance of queer joy
Posted Jan 26, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Ponyboi (2024) James Kleinmann At the heart of the film is a magnetic performance by River Gallo, conveying this compelling, flawed character’s vulnerability and resilience with every beat.
Posted Jan 25, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Summer Qamp (2023) James Kleinmann What makes Toronto-based filmmaker Jen Markowitz’s uplifting debut feature documentary...so refreshing and powerful is that the filmmaker hands the mic over to LGBTQ+ young people, allowing them to speak for themselves unhurried and uninterrupted.
Posted Sep 17, 2023  Edit critic review
5/5
Frybread Face and Me (2023) James Kleinmann The friendship that develops between the cousins is tenderly crafted by Luther and beautifully acted by the young leads who give natural, delicate performances that are both affecting and often hilarious.
Posted Sep 13, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Dicks: The Musical (2023) James Kleinmann "A delectably outrageous, endlessly kooky, and thrillingly depraved instant queer cult classic"
Posted Sep 08, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Chasing Chasing Amy (2023) James Kleinmann With subtle layers and complexities, this is a surprising, skillfully-crafted, deeply personal, moving and romantic film. It’s a gem that promises a bright filmmaking future for Sav Rodgers.
Posted Jul 28, 2023  Edit critic review
5/5
Of an Age (2022) James Kleinmann A devastatingly bittersweet, tender film of breathtaking, unforced emotional intensity. It’s an instant queer classic that broke then healed me.
Posted Feb 15, 2023  Edit critic review
3.5/5
80 for Brady (2023) James Kleinmann A heartwarming, uplifting tonic of a movie, as undemanding as it is delightful.
Posted Feb 03, 2023  Edit critic review
5/5
The Stroll (2023) James Kleinmann A vibrant, vital, and urgent historical document.
Posted Jan 30, 2023  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Slow (2023) James Kleinmann This is a relationship that I’ve never seen on screen before and one I was deeply touched by.
Posted Jan 29, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Fancy Dance (2023) James Kleinmann The strong performances keep things engaging, as the film builds to its gripping, emotionally potent climax.
Posted Jan 27, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Little Richard: I Am Everything (2023) James Kleinmann If you’re going to make a film about Little Richard, it’d better be electrifying, complex, and queer. That’s exactly what Oscar-nominated director Lisa Cortés delivers with Little Richard: I Am Everything.
Posted Jan 25, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Mutt (2023) James Kleinmann Lío Mehiel entrances here, delivering a brooding, captivating tour-de-force as Feña.
Posted Jan 24, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
KOKOMO CITY (2023) James Kleinmann A continually stimulating and absorbing film, that humanizes and destigamtizes as it challenges and opens conversations; offering an expansive, sex-positive, and unvarnished view of sex work as work. It’s a refreshingly unorthodox, thrilling work.
Posted Jan 23, 2023  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022) James Kleinmann There’s never a false note in Naomi Ackie’s performance...it feels effortless, avoiding any sense of imitation, she fully inhabits the role...Ackie really sells it, as she lip syncs for her life, capturing Whitney’s on-stage presence, passion, and spirit.
Posted Jan 16, 2023  Edit critic review
5/5
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) James Kleinmann A poignant work of cumulative power, rich with connections between Goldin’s past and present, her art and her activism.
Posted Jan 10, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Spoiler Alert (2022) James Kleinmann Crucially Parsons and Aldridge both deliver excellent performances that are precise yet feel effortless and natural and invite us in...Heartbreaking but beautifully life-affirming.
Posted Dec 01, 2022  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Casa Susanna (2022) James Kleinmann An absorbing and poignant watch that’s essential for anyone interested in queer history.
Posted Nov 13, 2022  Edit critic review
3.5/5
My Policeman (2022) James Kleinmann Delicately powerful...What lingers is the devastating impact of prejudice, the fragility of our rights, and the speed with which things can change.
Posted Oct 22, 2022  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Mama's Boy (2022) James Kleinmann Deeply moving and unexpectedly urgent. Black is a captivating storyteller; articulate, fiercely intelligent, and passionate.
Posted Oct 14, 2022  Edit critic review
5/5
Bros (2022) James Kleinmann An instant classic rom-com that’s up there with the best in the genre, while delivering something fresh, contemporary, and very queer. It’s romantic and feel-good, with something to say.
Posted Sep 15, 2022  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The Inspection (2022) James Kleinmann Deeply moving at times, Bratton delivers a delicate film set in an oppressive environment that’s ultimately a testament to the endurance of the human spirit
Posted Sep 12, 2022  Edit critic review
4/5
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2022) James Kleinmann A nuanced, powerful coming-of-age tale that’s as unsettling as it is uplifting.
Posted Sep 12, 2022  Edit critic review
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