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2015

★★★ Liked Watched 11 Jun 2025

This movie looks so good, especially for the first half hour or so, especially for such a low budget film. The streets of Brooklyn here are so lively and colourful, it really feels almost dreamlike both in appearance and content as the two lovebirds spend a day together after a romantic night prior.

The movie kind of never really reaches the highs of its first act, for me, but it definitely tries its hand at many things. Sometimes to its…

2018

★★★½ Liked Watched 09 Jun 2025

Incidentally, I had no idea this movie existed, which seemed weird because it's so recent and the cast is so stacked, and, about an hour into it, I realized had no idea what it was called. I just stumbled onto it scrolling through the Pride month additions on MUBI.

It's really a lovely and quite devastating family soap. It may seem like a familiar story, because it is, but it's executed so intricately. The script really allows for great character…

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2023

★★ 3

Well… I liked it more than Shiva Baby! But that’s not saying much. I thought that moving away from the single setting film would allow Seligman to create something a little more dynamic but I kind of found this to be really incoherent in of plot, tone, and mission. 

The fight club aspect of this kind of feels like a bit of a log line rather than something the film wants to explore—the motivation for our heroines’ investment in…

1996

★★★★ Liked Watched 27 Oct 2021

Watched thru this month’s Queersighted programming on Criterion Channel, and ended up liking it more than I anticipated! It captures a real sense of what gay life is like in small communities: the regulars, the dicey haunts, the familiar faces.

There’s all kinds of tensions on display here too, particularly between one’s queer life and one’s “real” life; the film is very naturalistic but, despite this, somehow still plays out like a dreamy odyssey in a gorgeous second act that…

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