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sex

Sanctuary

Sexual role-play exposes the limitations and fluctuating power dynamics of class, gender, and kink.

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande | Sundance 2022

The role of a widow seeking sexual experience serves as a greatest hits compilation for Emma Thompson.

Liberté | NYFF 2019

Albert Serra’s film has a strange, almost hypnotic pull, while turning its watchers into complicit voyeurs.

Videofilia (and Other Viral Syndromes)

A Peruvian film that attempts to be a film for and about the oversaturated teenage mind, and seemingly designed to be viewed on a laptop.

Love

Only a few films could pack a 2,300-seat theater at a 12:30 Thursday morning screening as did Gaspar Noé’s 3-D orgiastic opus Love when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Sight unseen, it had already gained notoriety for the director’s declared intention to add emotion to explicit sex within a love story. Well, in […]

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Written and directed by Marielle Heller, based on the novel by Phoebe Gloeckner Produced by Anne Carey, Bert Hamelinck, Madeline Samit, Miranda Bailey Released by Sony Pictures Classics USA. 102 min. Rated R With Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgard, Christopher Meloni, and Kristen Wiig According to Autism Daily Newscast, The Diary of a Teenage Girl is […]

Trainwreck

Directed by Judd Apatow Produced by Apatow and Barry Mendel Written by Amy Schumer Released by Universal Pictures USA. 123 min. Rated R With Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson, Colin Quinn, John Cena, Vanessa Bayer, Mike Birbiglia, Dave Attell, Tilda Swinton  and LeBron James Mwah mwah Amy Schumer. Bring this woman a cocktail! You’re […]

10,000 km

Directed by Carlos Marques-Marcet Produced by Tono Folguera, Jana Díaz Juhl and Sergi Moreno Written by Clara Roquet and Mr. Marques-Marcet Released by Broadgreen Pictures Spanish with English subtitles Spain. 99 min. Rated R With Natalia Tena and David Verdaguer In the first scene of the two-hander 10,000 km, Alex (Natalia Tena of Games of […]

The Overnight

Written and Directed by Patrick Brice Produced by Naomi Scott Released by the Orchard USA. 80 min. Rated R With Adam Scott, Taylor Schilling, Jason Schwartzman, and Judith Godrèche A downright hysterical entry in brothers Jay and Mark Duplass’s production canon, The Overnight constructs a recoiling depiction of thirtysomething frustrations by mixing R-rated hijinks with […]