Fresh Kill doesn’t quite manage to marry its political and philosophical observations with its fictive narrative. 5.8/10
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Love Lies Bleeding is an engaging, nasty and occasionally muddled crime picture. It’s a great addition to WLW movie canon because of how much it does that’s unique. 7.5/10
The ambition of Book of Monsters far exceeds its practical realities. This isn’t just a horror movie, but a splatter-heavy creature feature. And unfortunately, Book of Monsters is very, very cheap. 4.1/10
Sex is weird. Sexuality is perhaps weirder. The Book of Gabrielle understands and even celebrates that through its lead character’s stories and experiences. 6.6/10
Blue Jean is great at showing at once how far the LGBTQ* community has come and how much work still must be done to reach equality. All of this is done with a tight, focused narrative, assured directing and solid performances. 7.9/10
BBC TV movies are of a solid, uniform quality. Daphne is no exception. This is a good movie. But that’s as far as I’m willing to go. 6.4/10
The medium chosen to tell this story and the quality of directing brings down Stud Life’s vibrant, likeable and realistic protagonist. 5.1/10
Even while looking directly at it, The Adored failed to grab my full attention or leave a strong impression. 2.4/10
Carmilla is the rare film I wish were longer. I did not want to leave the story and world this film created. 7.6/10
Even in the director’s cut, the word “bitch” has more representation in Wild Side than lesbianism does. 5.3/10