Any movie that causes me to break down crying is an automatic 4.5 stars, at least. Like I had to go lay in my bed for awhile after this was over.

A memorial and a meditation, Aftersun moves at a steady, almost languorous pace. It matches the relationship between Sophie and Calum, daughter and father, one marked by an easygoing closeness and trust. They're on a summer vacation in Turkey, spending their days relaxing in their resort and recording each…

Wrote a couple thousand words on the definitive Millennial Suburban Bay Area Asian movie for my newsletter: how it felt to be uncannily represented on screen, the trend of the Annual Big Asian American Movie, and what it feels like to go back home. This took me way too long to crack, and I'm not sure I succeeded. But check it out anyway.

There’s an inherent universality to a film that’s about growing up; it’s one of the few experiences…

I have a fascination with movies about fictional pop stars, particularly those with songs written by real-world hitmakers. So when I received a press release for a “Cannes Breakout Glittercore 2000s-Set Queer Pop Musical” about a tortured romance between a pop idol and a punk icon, I immediately wanted to watch it. And Queens of Drama certainly matched that description.

Destined to be a midnight movie classic for the sapphics, French filmmaker Alexis Langlois’ debut feature is an exuberantly messy…

Over the opening credits, we hear Sinéad O’Connor sing a cover of Nirvana’s “All Apologies.” “What else should I say? Everyone is gay,” could be an appropriate thesis statement for Luca Guadagnino’s period drama, an adaptation of William S. Burroughs' novel Queer. It was famously published in unfinished form, and screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes fills in the gaps to fully realize the narrative. I have not read the book, and speaking with fellow attendees, it seems many of us unfamiliar with…

This experimental coming of age story has a great concept - every scene is drawn from the tweets of a seemingly random teenager named Mary. Some lines of dialogue repeat Mary's tweets verbatim, others imagine the scenario that led her to write a certain post. The pseudo-profound musings are syntactically reminiscent of what my friends and I would write when we were angsty high schoolers with Tumblr s. Perhaps those ramblings actually are profound, the film suggests. Mary is Happy…