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There are broad American comedies (The Birdcage), artful Korean crime dramas (The Handmaiden), groundbreaking indies (Tangerine), and landmark documentaries (Paris Is Burning). Domingo is equally tender and hilarious, giving a performance that really elevates the script.
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This Taiwanese Netflix original follows a 13-year-old boy, Chengxi (Joseph Huang), whose absent father has just died.
Winner Onya Nurve and runner-up Jewels Sparkles embodied that sweet spot, balancing exceptional craft, comedic chaos, and genuine warmth while also making the most of the unscripted brand as a career launchpad and artistic playground. The two [More]
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Jake Lacy
Directed By: Todd Haynes
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Critics Consensus: Lust and violence collide to powerfully pulpy effect in Love Lies Bleeding, a well-acted addition to writer-director Rose Glass' growing body of exceptional work.
Don’t watch this movie expecting a responsible depiction of polyamory. It satirizes harmful cis-heteronormative ideas about gender and sexuality, hilariously taking them to the color-coded extreme. Over the last few years, we added titles like the documentary Welcome to Chechnya, about LGBTQ+ activists risking their lives for the cause in Russia; Certified Fresh comedy Shiva, Baby; and Netflix’s The Old Guard, a rare movie about super beings that showed a same-sex relationship between two of its heroes.
Culled from a longlist of hundreds, movies considered for the list prominently feature gay, lesbian, trans, or queer characters; concern itself centrally with LGBTQ+ themes; present its LGBTQ+ characters in a fair and realistic light; and/or be seen as a touchpoint in the evolution of queer cinema.
On hospital picture day, he meets Jay Kurundkar (Jonathan Groff), a white man who was adopted by Indian parents and is devoted to the culture. Their friendship gives the lethal ritual its grounding humanity, from the starting gun to the very end. [More]
Starring: Cecilia Roth, Eloy Azorín, Marisa Paredes, Penélope Cruz
Directed By: Pedro Almodóvar
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Critics Consensus: With stunning honesty that's achingly bittersweet, Joyland tackles gender and sexual fluidity in a repressed patriarchal society with wisps of hopefulness.
—RL
“The Serpent’s Skin”
If “Ginger Snaps” was the sapphic horror awakening of the early 2000s, “The Serpent’s Skin” feels like its modern, Gen-Z descendant. —WC
“RuPaul’s Drag Race”
Seventeen seasons into making her-story, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” spent 2025 doing what it does best: turning queer joy into a global spectator sport.
“Blue Moon”
Ethan Hawke isn’t the first choice you would think of to play an embittered, messy bisexual — one who is several inches shorter than his lanky build, nonetheless — but somehow the actor nails it in “Blue Moon,” a biopic of acclaimed lyricist Lorenzo Hart from Hawke’s frequent collaborator Richard Linklater.
Chengxi decides to move in with Jay, partially because of grief and a desire to be close to his father and partially because he’s drawn to Jay’s free-spirited lifestyle.
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This seminal Off Broadway production was first adapted to film in 1970.
The director of “Stranger by the Lake” and “Staying Vertical” reunites with cinematographer Claire Mathon (“Portrait of a Lady on Fire”) for a bleakly funny tragicomedy about the unavoidability of our desires and their destructive power.
—AF
“Lurker”
There’ve been a lot of homoerotic thrillers in recent memory about men ingratiating themselves into the life of someone more beautiful and fortunate than they are: see the recent “Saltburn” for the most famous example. Her parents, meanwhile, refuse to fully see her, and their already troubled marriage strains under the weight of that avoidance.
—WC
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Equal parts fashion Olympics, acting Super Bowl, and gay “Hunger Games,” Drag Race remains one of the few TV institutions where LGBTQ artistry isn’t debated or defended because it’s the main event. The documentary arrived last winter amid renewed national attacks on LGBTQ rights and countered the vitriol of that moment with a deeply empathetic portrait of genderqueer poet Andrea Gibson.It stars co-director Matthew Fifer as Ben, a bisexual white guy from Long Island who’s just recently come to terms with his sexuality, and Sheldon D. Brown as Sam, a closeted gay Black man with a successful career in tech.
Season 17 arrived amid revived political hostility toward trans and gender-nonconforming people.
Synopsis: England, 1988 -- Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government is about to pass a law stigmatizing gays and lesbians, forcing Jean, a [More]
Starring: Rosy McEwen, Kerrie Hayes, Lydia Page, Stacy Abalogun
Directed By: Georgia Oakley