There isn’t much in this film that I think was actually “good.” At least, not if you’re comparing it to films beyond other Vivamax originals. But there’s not much here I found outright bad or objectionable either. This is the new high water mark for Vivamax. I’d love to see them improve on it, though I’m not holding my breath. 5.1/10
Tag: <span>mixed review</span>
The Investigator has one main aim: to shine a light on a very shameful piece of UK recent history with accuracy and receipts. 6.0/10
This is a sapphic movie with more money, resources and experience behind the scenes than the overwhelming majority of WLW films. With all those head starts for the movie to impress me, it didn’t more often than it did. 5.5/10
Do I Know You From Somewhere? uses a sci-fi or at least, magical realism concept to tell a grounded story about relationships, choices and people. 6.1/10
I’ve seen better survival thrillers and I’ve seen worse. Something in the Water out here offering you mediocre quality lesbian representation in shark movies. 5.2/10
This is a small, emotional movie that perhaps got too into its feelings to the point of it losing credibility for me. I do not think Bao Bao is a great film. But it does hold together, provide a few new things to the lesbian pregnancy subgenre. 5.1/10
Bonobo is a film entrenched in British culture and stereotype. This inherently makes the film too uptight and repressed to do full justice to its main premise. 5.4/10
One Four Three plays it very safe. But amnesia is the sort of plot device that I’m much more interested in seeing stories where the creators really swing for the fences in some way or another. 5.3/10
While it isn’t new, it is both funny and not wholly inaccurate to modern teen experiences. And for a teen comedy, what more can you ask? 6.0/10
The New Girlfriend is quite the mixed bag. The film is well-directed and has some great performances. It has a really interesting premise as well. Unfortunately, that premise involves a trans woman, and it’s a film from 2014. 5.9/10