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The director plays Dennis, an awkward man who meets the grieving Roman (Dylan O’Brien, in an extraordinary performance) at a support group for people mourning their twins and falls into a co-dependent friendship with him. Gorgeously animated and delicately written, “The Summer Hikaru Died” tells a teen melodrama tale through a decidedly queer lens, asking how repression and self-hate can make one feel like their own desires are monstrous.
Synopsis: In 1976 a couple take over an adult book store, and the store becomes the biggest distributor of gay porn [More]
Starring: Karen Mason, Rachel Mason, Larry Flynt, Jeff Stryker
Directed By: Rachel Mason
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Critics Consensus: Alternately horrific and uplifting, Call Me Kuchu exposes heinous systematic brutality with a clear eye and admirable precision.
Synopsis: EVERY BODY is a revelatory investigation of the lives of intersex people. Melling spent time with the Gay Bikers Motorcycle Club to prepare for the role. It’s hornier, witchier, and emotionally messier in all the right ways, and filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay’s purple-hued bisexual romance blends girl-on-girl obsession, occult power, and pop-fed fantasy into a frothy queer brew that treats desire with magic and menace.
It’s currently streaming on HBO Max.
Hedda
Hedda stars Tessa Thompson as a 1950s British socialite navigating a lavish party while confronting the return of her former lover Eileen (Nina Hoss).
Synopsis: A coming-of-age "traumedy" that follows 16-year-old Lindy (Maddie Ziegler) who is unexpectedly diagnosed with a reproductive condition, MRKH syndrome. Written by “Letterkenny” creator Jacob Tierney, the show takes a cheesy premise — a decade-long love affair between two superstar hockey players — and makes it compelling, offering a look at the sacrifices queer people must make to survive in the sports world’s closet that’s neither cloying nor dismissive.
What emerges from the recreation, ably portrayed by Rebecca Hall and Ben Whishaw, is an ambling, loose conversation that stretches into the night, as they gossip, talk trash about acquaintances, and ruminate on the banality of day-to-day life. The director of “Stranger by the Lake” and “Staying Vertical” reunites with cinematographer Claire Mathon (“Portrait of a Lady on Fire”) for a bleakly funny tragicomedy about the unavoidability of our desires and their destructive power.
Synopsis: New friends help a woman (Cecilia Roth) struggling to get her life in order after her son's (Eloy Azorín) death. —RL
“Heated Rivalry”
“Heated Rivalry” went viral because of its sex scenes, and although the scandalized reactions might be a bit hyperbolic, they mostly live up to the hype: the sweaty, noisy, and unbearably intimate moments where the show’s two main characters get undressed and get on top of each other are some of the hottest in recent TV memory.
The revelation sends Yoshiki into a spiral of grief and guilt, but he also can’t bear the thought of losing Hikaru even more than he already has. What begins as an unlikely friendship takes unexpected turns. —WC
“The Hunting Wives”
Created by Rebecca Cutter, “The Hunting Wives” was engineered to provoke in every political direction.
Most importantly, Tierney found two perfect stars in Hudson Williams and Connor Storie, who are individually great — Williams as the submissive and socially awkward Shane, Storie as the dominant and hot-headed Ilya — and together have the type of electric onscreen chemistry that has made thousands of viewers fall in love with their characters almost as hard as they fall for each other.
(And speaking of comments: yes, we know that But I’m a Cheerleader is missing — we love it too! Frank and forthcoming about a common disconnect in the LGBTQ dating pool, “Sauna” is rich in atmosphere but more importantly the chemistry of the leads. “Blue Moon” is empathetic towards Hart but also cognizant of his many failings, and Hawke supplies the character with enough empathy that he becomes one of the year’s most frustrating, fascinating figures in film this year.
The documentary arrived last winter amid renewed national attacks on LGBTQ rights and countered the vitriol of that moment with a deeply empathetic portrait of genderqueer poet Andrea Gibson.
Bound together by desire, secrecy, and confused social necessity, the women of this dishy novel persist beyond author May Cobb’s pages into the Netflix adaptation by explosively translating layered radicalization.
Synopsis: The Ranas--a happily patriarchal joint family--yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue the family line.
When the groom’s grandmother arrives to throw an extravagant Korean wedding banquet, plans go sideways. —AF
“Twinless”
James Sweeney’s sophomore feature, “Twinless” works as both a horrifying queer thriller and a discomfortingly funny dark comedy.