I thought I didn’t like these Christmas movies because they’re cliche. Turns out, I just didn’t like them because they’re all straight. Under the Christmas Tree gives me and other queer women a sweet, cliche romance that allows us to fantasize or imagine ourselves in. 6.6/10
Tag: <span>genre: romance</span>
Nice though it is to look at, Bonnie & Bonnie doesn’t bring much new to the gay couple crime spree subgenre. 5.8/10
The War Widow undoubtedly looks like a 1976 TV movie. But within that framework, there is a sweet, small yet quietly radical romance. 6.3/10
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
Lianna is a progressive, sensitive and spectacular character study. 8.9/10
Emilienne doesn’t have a strong enough story nor notable enough erotica. It’s very much a film meant to ride the coattails of an earlier, more successful movie. 3.6/10
I genuinely want all WLW movies to be good. When Kiran Met Karen can’t be called good though. 1.8/10
For decades, Beyond the Walls would have been the best lesbian nun movie about a woman who fakes a stigmata. But Benedetta blows it out of the water. 5.6/10
Me, Myself and Her is one of the most conflict-light WLW movies I’ve ever seen. It bored me. 5.2/10
Air falls victim of being good but not great in the over-crowded field of WLW teen dramas. 5.6/10