What is Obsession, If Not Grief Persevering?: ‘Twinless’ (2025) by James Sweeney
SUNDANCE 2025: The Alaska-born writer-director’s sophomore feature is just as playful as it is devastating, also featuring a very versatile Dylan O’Brien.
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You Are Being Watched: ‘Plainclothes’ (2025) by Carmen Emmi
SUNDANCE 2025: In this stylistically creative debut feature, a young police officer in ‘90s upstate New York tasked with entrapping gay men must decide between staying true to himself and his rising career.
Charm in the Wake of Colonialism: ‘We Were Dangerous’ (2023) by Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu
TROMSØ 2025: In 1950s New Zealand, three teen girls boldly take on the dark and violent surviving institutions of British colonialism —and the result is surprisingly cutesy, if not a little too much so.
Purple Hour’s Top Films of 2024 Featuring LGBTQIA+ Narratives
Diverse in style, genre, mode of storytelling, country of origin, and so much more, here are our picks for 2024’s best films from a queer lens and canted angle.
Deep Cuts in the Catskills: ‘Good One’ (2024) by India Donaldson
Lush forests reveal unfortunate life truths to a teen girl on a backpacking trip with her father and his friend.