Hulu’s spinoff of Love, Simon has a shaky start, but ultimately offers value to queer youth searching for guidance.
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Barbara Białowąs & Tomasz Mandes’ erotic drama has a truly gross premise and oodles of bad acting to leave you hot and bothered—or just bothered.
The only sighs Shannon Murphy’s tragic romantic drama elicits are of boredom.
HBO Max’s new series sees Anna Kendrick in a show that compounds quirky millennial clichés around her onscreen talents.
Rachel Lee Goldenberg’s remake of the 1983 rom-com is a light, airy work of kitsch that’s easy to fall into.
Netflix’s new teen drama is more CW than anything else, and doesn’t offer much else than overstuffed teen […]
Disney+’s adaptation of the Jerry Spinelli novel is tooth-achingly twee.
Spike Lee’s 1986 debut is a bold, if shaggy, milestone for the history of Black cinema.
Demme’s 1986 screwball comedy is one of his most joyful and unexpectedly rebellious films.
The cinematographer of Sundance favorite Jumbo talks about transforming a tilt-a-whirl into Noémie Merlant’s living, breathing lover.
Issa Rae and Lakeith Stanfield look at their romance through the lens of the past in Stella Meghie’s sumptuous drama.
Netflix’s sequel to To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before keeps the charm but loses some of its edge.
Levan Akin’s grounded, richly textured Georgian love story brims with dance and forbidden romance.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire’s Noémie Merlant gets sweet on a theme park ride in this charming, if conventionally quirky dramedy.
Makoto Shinkai’s followup to Your Name is another charming coming-of-age tale with a supernatural twist.
Sam Mendes’s tale of forlorn love works best as a study of the pitfalls that litter the American Dream.
Netflix’s cult-hit stalker melodrama returns for a second season of wild, campy intrigue.
Netflix continues its ongoing battle with Hallmark for the souls of middling Christmas movies everywhere. In an effort […]