I both wanted to like and expected to like Atomic Blonde more than I actually did. Unfortunately, aside from the excellent cast headed by Charlize Theron, Atomic Blonde left me…
Tag: <span>2010s</span>
It has little valid artistic merit, but if you want to see two beautiful women engaging in a bunch of well-shot sex scenes, Room in Rome exists.
Based on an exceptionally interesting historical figure, The Girl King is a two hour exercise in wasted potential and disappointment. 4.8/10
Cameron Post is competent and a close adaption of its source material. However, it lacks personality as its own piece of storytelling. 6.1/10
So do I let ten minutes of creepy, straight male indulgence ruin the rest of this three-hour film and all its positives? Not entirely. However, I’d feel a lot less conflicted about this undoubtedly very good film if those damn sex scenes had simply been cut down a bit. 8.6/10
While The Unwanted is not a particularly pleasant sit, this movie had a lot of original ideas and held my interest.
My review of Yes or No is going to focus mainly around one question: is this movie cute enough for me to overlook its various flaws?
Zoe.Misplaced is the only WLW movie I can find whose English title starts with Z. Given that my expectations for this movie amounted to nothing more than it being a WLW movies whose title started with Z, Zoe.Misplaced exceeded my expectations. 5.0/10
Elena Undone is essentially if you merged all lesbian films together and then took the average of those films and made it into one movie. If you’ve seen five or more lesbian films in your life, you have seen this Elena Undone.
I do not want this review to come off as though I am making exceptions for Rafiki’s quality because of its difficult and singular origin. If you look at the movie without regarding its importance to African and Kenyan LGBT representation and status as a brave trailblazer, you’re still left with a strong and enjoyable movie. 8.6/10