20 years on, Brokeback Mountain remains a milestone of queer cinema. There's an interesting discussion to be had about the casting of straight actors and the depiction of intimacy, but the film's score and tragic ending remain iconic

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 6, 2025

It remains a rarely-surpassed high-watermark for both Ledger and Gyllenhaal, who were both nominated (it remains Gyllenhaal’s only nod), and who each capture something in their characters and something in themselves as actors that seems a tad elusive.

| Aug 1, 2024

Sure, there are happier gay films out now, ones that involve more queer talent both in front of and behind the camera, but here I am still, clinging onto this masterpiece like Ennis holding onto that damn jacket.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 11, 2024

Above all, the performances of Jake Gyllenhall and Heath Ledger lift “Brokeback Mountain” above the ordinary study of male-male friendship and love—repressed, resisted, indulged, debated, and analyzed. It pays dividends in its haunting specificity.

| May 29, 2024

Ledger and Gyllenhaal deserve nothing but praise for their brave, sensitive portrayals of troubled souls...

| Jan 3, 2024

It’s plain to see that this movie is always going to be relevant in the gay community and there’s a good reason why. It’s unbelievably great.

| Oct 23, 2023

As Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist discover, a lot can happen during long nights on the range.

| Oct 23, 2023

Director Ang Lee, working from an adaptation of a short story from Annie Proulx, has created an epic motion picture about the power of love and the tragedy of separation. The chemistry between the stars is intense and tender.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 8, 2023

Though it runs marginally overlong, Ledger and Gyllenhaal’s performances transform what is essentially a straightforward, perhaps unfluctuating love story into something remarkable and memorable.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 31, 2023

A moving drama that grapples honestly with the closet, homophobia, and forbidden love in surprisingly fresh ways.

| Nov 1, 2022

One of the most romantic films I've ever seen. A passionate film about love, truth and life. Full review in Spanish

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 9, 2022

The world we live in today is still doing its damndest to twist the very definition of love out of our hands. This film is a slap in every one of their santimonious, ignorant faces.

| Jul 2, 2021

Brokeback Mountain serves as something of an antidote to the incessant homophobic harping...

| Jul 9, 2020

It is challenging to find a movie that grabs you as hard as this does. The story lingers long after its woeful end, ultimately showing the power of such an amazing film, while also keeping and transferring the theme of longing to its audience.

| Jun 9, 2020

Heath Ledger gives an Oscar-worthy take on a man who already seems in mourning for a loss he will be late to grasp.

| May 7, 2020

Ledger hits all the right notes as Ennis, delivering a quiet performance filled with heartache and sorrow.

| Nov 19, 2019

The passion created here...makes no restrictions on who can understand and appreciate it. This is as fine a love story as there is. [May 10, 2018]

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 22, 2019

Lee has crafted a film that flouts stereotypes and becomes one of the most sincere, most deeply felt love stories in years.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 5, 2019

What is remarkable about the film is how it doesn't politicise the homosexuality theme, transcends it to become the story of two people in doomed love. The two lead characters are wonderfully delineated.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 10, 2019

The real achievement of Brokeback Mountain is not that it tells a universal love story that happens to have gay characters in it, but that it tells a distinctively gay story that happens to be so well told that any feeling person can be moved by it.

| Aug 21, 2018