REVIEWS
The bread + butter of film criticism. Or not...?
XPOSED 2025: The French filmmaker soars to beautifully chaotic, queer, campy heights with this festival favourite about two star-crossed lovers looking down the barrel of the music industry’s straight and conformist gun.
12 June 2025
Olivia Popp
SXSW LONDON 2025 / INSIDE OUT 2025: This multi-award winner is a quiet journey into sensorial discovery between a man who goes the Maharashtra countryside for his father’s funeral and an unwed farmer.
09 June 2025
Olivia Popp
INSIDE OUT 2025: The Iranian writer-director signs a profound testament to community in this tale of celebration, mourning, and impending departure.
06 June 2025
Olivia Popp
XPOSED 2025: The Filipino director’s newest feature shoots Manila all aglow with neon light in a story of a group of young male sex workers who come together after tragedy, all over the course of one night.
03 June 2025
Emel-Elizabeth Tuulik
CANNES 2025: Diego Céspedes glides to a big win in Cannes' Un Certain Regard strand with this winding but unflinching debut centring the strength of trans women.
24 May 2025
Emel-Elizabeth Tuulik
CANNES 2025: Led by heartthrob favourites Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor, the South African director's new queer drama is disappointingly lukewarm, caught up in its own languorous melancholia.
22 May 2025
Emel-Elizabeth Tuulik
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