Hey there, I love films about queer women and I have a lot of opinions on them.
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Ema 2019
On the surface Ema is about a destructive and self-destructive woman who is willing to destroy anything in her path to achieve her goal, and it certainly is that, but it's also a movie about the battle between traditional and new. It's the kind of film I don't want to get too much into plot-wise, going in blind makes it all the more interesting.
Ema is another character many will loathe as being "unlikable," and surely her selfishness and grandiosity…
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Someone Great 2019
Someone Great is one of those films where I wasn't totally sold on it until very strong last third of the story. The first hour of this movie is sometimes cringy and stuffed with dialogue that felt like the kind of poorly improvised banter you'd hear before the written dialogue actually starts, but it was all clearly barrelling towards a much stronger message and story about friendship, loss, and memory.
I know this sounds pretentious but what I found to…
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Bottoms 2023
Bottoms is vying to be the next great horny teen comedy and will hopefully stay in public consciousness for a long time.
The film is the type of laugh-a-minute teen comedy we certainly haven’t seen for a lesbian movie in a long time. Rachel Sennet and Ayo Edebiri’s natural charisma and rapport anchor the film’s breakneck ridiculous humor that is clearly stuffed with improv. Everyone will find something funny in the movie - and if you don’t, the credits bloopers…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
I sobbed during the entire credit sequence after the movie finished.
As the lesbian daughter of an Asian immigrant mom, this film certainly hit close to me personally, but I can't imagine anyone watching this film and not being able to see themselves and their family in the absurdity, the humanity, the absolute truth within every character and every moment in this film. Life may be meaningless, but that is also what gives it meaning, and Everything Everywhere All at Once illuminates that beautifully.
