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Queerly Ever After is a bi-monthly column where I take a look at LGBT+ films…
Even in its short runtime, Red Letter Day disappoints by the sheer laziness of never pushing the screenplay to a possibly climactic finale.
While not challenging, The Parts You Lose is a thoughtful if not meager meditation on the relationships that define us.
As poetic as its title, The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open cannot be understated for its power and must not be erased from the conversation.
Somewhere in the passable 90-minute In the Tall Grass is an hour long short that’s riveting, tense, and short enough to not overstay its welcome.
Night Hunter’s stellar cast, skilled musical score composers, and a solid set of inspirations combine to little beyond an uninspiring drama at best.
Harpoon never gets deep enough to attain full authenticity, but it’s still a fittingly tense and amusingly deranged romp, poking fun at how low these people are drowning into moral abyss.
Blood Quantum manages to be creative, while somehow also maintaining the zombie apocalypse genre’s known sensibilities.
Freaks is a paranoid little picture, using its influences wisely while manufacturing something distinctive: one of the best Sci-fi’s of the year.
Guest of Honour ultimately feels like a missed opportunity for both an intriguing character study on grief, and a compelling drama.
The losers are as compelling as before, Chapter Two successfully binds this group to its former to give fans a nuanced end.
Despite some design flaws, Astronaut sticks its landing enjoyably enough thanks to the command of Dreyfuss and a novel angle of attack.
From the first frame to the last, Firecrackers is clearly a story by women, about women, stubbornly through their gaze without regrets.
While director Xavier Dolan and the film’s characters say goodbye to their twenties, Matthias et Maxime itself leaves much to be desired.
As a live-action Gundam movie, this was very ambitious, but not quite the special many of the Gundam fans were hoping for.