Birder
An erotic, queer serial killer movie in the tradition Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake and William Friedkin’s Cruising.
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Queendom
The life of Jenna Marvin, a queer performance artist from Russia, is captured in this bold and sobering documentary.
Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes
The documentary doesn’t shy away from Lynes’s sublime nude photography, rather it ravishes in it, as if to visually reclaim a suppressed history.
I Saw the TV Glow
There is a lot to unpack and ruminate over in Jane Schoenbrun’s moody and extraordinarily layered film, where abstract ideas are made tangible.
The Contestant
The bizarre 1998 Japanese phenomenon that established the template for reality TV in the 21st century.
Challengers
The trinity of the cool Hollywood star, the theater kid, and the versatile indie actor lends itself to a powerful collaboration of differing styles and tensions in this love triangle.
Sasquatch Sunset
David Zellner and Nathan Zellner’s latest curiosity treks the four seasons deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest from the point of a view of a small band of Sasquatches.