The Ugly Stepsister (2025)
96%
“One of the best horror films of the decade so far.” –
Autostraddle
Feb 3, 2025
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Heightened Scrutiny (2025)
92%
“As a trans person, there’s a comfort in hearing the facts laid out so clearly and with such feeling.
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Autostraddle
Feb 3, 2025
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Plainclothes (2025)
79%
“While this disinterest in policing isn’t inherently a problem, it does leave the film’s most interesting thematic threads unexplored.” –
Autostraddle
Feb 3, 2025
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Power Alley (2023)
“Throughout the film, easy narrative choices are resisted for the unexpected and more effective.” –
Autostraddle
Feb 1, 2025
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You Are Not Me (2023)
100%
“While the Get Out comparisons are inevitable, the film this most recalls is actually Brian Yuzna’s 1989 masterpiece Society.” –
Autostraddle
Feb 1, 2025
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Rains Over Babel (2025)
91%
“This is a very sincere film about life and death and self-acceptance, but it’s also endless fun.” –
Autostraddle
Feb 1, 2025
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Come See Me in the Good Light (2025)
100%
“It’s a tender look at two queer people in love and a celebration of the desire to live.” –
Autostraddle
Feb 1, 2025
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LUZ (2025)
44%
“At times the dialogue is blunt, the script not quite as remarkable as the style, but I still found myself fully connected to these people and their searching.” –
Autostraddle
Feb 1, 2025
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GEN_ (2025)
100%
“The best compliment I can give GEN_ is that it’s kind of boring.” –
Autostraddle
Jan 31, 2025
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Sauna (2025)
91%
“I’m not criticizing a good movie because of how it tells a trans story. I’m criticizing a mediocre movie because a trans story that may seem fresh to some is all it has to offer.” –
Autostraddle
Jan 31, 2025
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Bunnylovr (2025)
55%
“Katarina Zhu’s feature debut is at its best when it leans into the boundaries of its character’s self-destruction.” –
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Jan 31, 2025
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Omaha (2025)
88%
“Every narrative and formal choice made in Omaha feels manufactured to make the audience cry rather than to deepen its characters and serve the story.” –
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Jan 31, 2025
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Where the Wind Comes From (2025)
100%
“The characters are often kept in the lower half of the frame as if Guellaty and DP Frida Marzouk are leaving space for their dreams.” –
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Jan 31, 2025
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Cactus Pears (2025)
100%
“There have been many films about queer people returning to their family homes, but few with this amount of tender specificity. ” –
Autostraddle
Jan 31, 2025
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Sorry, Baby (2025)
95%
“While the smart script and strong performances are easy to praise, the filmmaking is just as noteworthy. The form isn’t showy, but it is skilled.” –
Autostraddle
Jan 31, 2025
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The Virgin of the Quarry Lake (2025)
79%
“This is a challenging, at times nasty, film, but it’s not cynical. When all humanity seems lost, Casabé returns to the faces of her talented performers to reveal the conflict beneath their harsh choices.
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Autostraddle
Jan 31, 2025
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Coexistence, My Ass! (2025)
92%
“Part of me wishes the first half of the film matched the complexity and craft of the second, but I also think, as is, the film is something of a magic trick.” –
Autostraddle
Jan 31, 2025
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Stroking an Animal (2023)
“Stroking an Animal is an arthouse movie that reflects the messiness of real queer lives. Tender and sexy, joyous and melancholy, this is queer cinema in its purest form.” –
Autostraddle
Jan 24, 2025
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Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara (2024)
94%
“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.” –
Autostraddle
Oct 17, 2024
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Megalopolis (2024)
45%
“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.” –
Autostraddle
Sep 30, 2024
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French Girl (2024)
25%
“I just can’t believe this movie came out this year instead of twenty years ago.
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Autostraddle
Sep 30, 2024
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I'll Be Right There (2024)
86%
“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.” –
Autostraddle
Sep 30, 2024
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Bird (2024)
86%
“Bird is Andrea Arnold’s most ambitious work. It also might be her truest masterpiece.” –
Autostraddle
Sep 14, 2024
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The Shrouds (2024)
74%
“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.” –
Autostraddle
Sep 13, 2024
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Diciannove (2024)
“Unfortunately, Tortorici’s story is not as exciting as his craft.” –
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Sep 13, 2024
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