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INTO is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): B.L. Panther, David Opie, Federica Bocco, Josh Encinias, Juan Barquin, Murtada Elfadl, Pilot Viruet, Ren Jender.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
5/5
Chrissy Judy (2022) David Opie In another timeline, Flaherty would be winning awards for Chrissy Judy beyond the queer festival circuit, and not just for his acting. Not only does he take the lead in Chrissy Judy, he also wrote, edited and directed the film too.
Posted Jul 07, 2023  Edit critic review
5/5
Passages (2023) David Opie Franz Rogowski's character thrives on instinct, doing what he wants and who he wants without any regard for others. It’s almost impressive how narcissistic he is, yet there’s something uncomfortably appealing about it: Tomas is the ultimate sexy fuckboy.
Posted Apr 11, 2023  Edit critic review
Eileen (2023) David Opie Anne throws everything she has into this character, every wattage of star power at her command, to craft a queer Hollywood fantasy distilled into human form.
Posted Apr 03, 2023  Edit critic review
The Stroll (2023) Juan Barquin Drucker & Lovell haven’t just succinctly told a dense history of one street in New York, its inhabitants, and the way they impacted so much of what exists beyond them, but crafted a truly essential piece of trans cinema
Posted Jan 26, 2023  Edit critic review
A
Sirens (2022) Ren Jender If someone had told me one of my favorite films from Sundance would be about a thrash metal band in Lebanon, I wouldn’t have believed them. But Rita Baghdadi’s Sirens—executive produced in part by Maya Rudolph and Natasha Lyonne—is one of the rare...
Posted Jan 10, 2023  Edit critic review
A-
Nothing Compares (2022) Ren Jender Nothing Compares, Kathryn Ferguson’s stunning documentary on the rapid rise and fall from worldwide fame of Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor, comes at an auspicious time. We’re living in a moment where women singers who were previously vilified by...
Posted Jan 10, 2023  Edit critic review
Encanto (2021) Henry Giardina Encanto is a beautiful metaphor for how we can encourage our families to make space for us without hurting their sense of tradition or security.
Posted Oct 07, 2022  Edit critic review
No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics (2021) Henry Giardina Kleiman follows the stories of a select group of working artists to show how queer comics gave LGBTQ+ readers a way to see themselves before the movies cared to depict us with any real care or interest.
Posted Oct 07, 2022  Edit critic review
Malignant (2021) Henry Giardina Apart from this story making zero sense even in the realm of horror, it’s a pretty trans setup.
Posted Oct 07, 2022  Edit critic review
15 Minutes of Shame (2021) Henry Giardina “15 Minutes" explores how our cultural obsession with shame—particularly the way our neural pleasure centers are sparked by the act of “piling on” to shamed individuals online—both can and may not necessarily end in justice.
Posted Oct 07, 2022  Edit critic review
The Princess and the Frog (2009) Henry Giardina We got a Disney movie where the princess is visibly Black for about 10 minutes before turning into a frog with long eyelashes for the rest of the movie.
Posted Oct 07, 2022  Edit critic review
Switchblade Romance (2003) Henry Giardina In the early 2000s, gay people were either killers, or pedophiles, or victims. All three? Maybe. But you couldn’t be anything else.
Posted Oct 07, 2022  Edit critic review
Women Who Kill (2016) Henry Giardina It’s really the lesbian part of Women Who Kill that makes it great, not the film noir part.
Posted Oct 07, 2022  Edit critic review
Prick Up Your Ears (1987) Henry Giardina In Prick Up Your Ears, faithfully modeled on John Lahr’s brilliant biography of the same name, we’re treated to a surprising mix of tone that itself feels subversive.
Posted Oct 07, 2022  Edit critic review
Brain Damage (1988) Henry Giardina “I woke up and felt something sticky in my pants,” says Brian at one point, in possibly the gayest sentence ever uttered in cinematic history.
Posted Oct 07, 2022  Edit critic review
Eating Raoul (1982) Henry Giardina "Eating Raoul" is a satire that attacks both ends of the spectrum.
Posted Oct 07, 2022  Edit critic review
The Pirate (1948) Henry Giardina It’s a musical about what it’s like to be a girl with a kink in a universe that denies girls the power of sexual fantasy.
Posted Oct 07, 2022  Edit critic review
Zero Patience (1993) Henry Giardina The story-within-a-story of a nation struggling to tell the “story” of AIDS can’t help but be appealing.
Posted Oct 07, 2022  Edit critic review
Vibes (1988) Henry Giardina In these hideous times, a Cyndi Lauper rom-com is one of the only effective balms for our aching souls.
Posted Oct 07, 2022  Edit critic review
Wilde (1997) Henry Giardina Brian Gilbert’s biopic is many things, but above all it is confusing in its choices.
Posted Oct 07, 2022  Edit critic review
Appropriate Behavior (2014) Henry Giardina Akhavan’s work understands what it is to be in-between, in every sense.
Posted Oct 07, 2022  Edit critic review
Bros (2022) Juan Barquin Bros is a film that is content to be up its own ass and a leading man (and co-creator) who will continue to spend every waking hour reminding us how important he and his film are.
Posted Oct 06, 2022  Edit critic review
B
Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) Murtada Elfadl The problem with taking centuries-old tall tales and visualizing them is that no matter how grand you go, there’s a limit. The task was impossible to begin with.
Posted Aug 26, 2022  Edit critic review
Framing Agnes (2022) Juan Barquin While the texts themselves are essential and deserve to be heard, Framing Agnes instead allows the actors playing the dead to speak over them.
Posted Jan 28, 2022  Edit critic review
B
House of Gucci (2021) Murtada Elfadl This is a story of excess, and no where is that more realized than in the performances. These characters call for un-subtlety; the actors oblige by going big.
Posted Nov 24, 2021  Edit critic review
Tully (2018) Juan Barquin The film explores what women put themselves through to seem like they're doing OK, often ignoring everything from mental illness to their own desires...
Posted Sep 17, 2021  Edit critic review
Assassination Nation (2018) Juan Barquin Considering the state of the nation, maybe a loud and unsubtle feature that feels like a direct descendant of Brian De Palma (both in form and in sociopolitical commentary) is exactly what we need right now.
Posted Sep 17, 2021  Edit critic review
How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017) Juan Barquin How to Talk to Girls at Parties navigates finding one's true community, literally allowing an alien to try and find a home in a punk human world, and there's familiarity...
Posted Sep 17, 2021  Edit critic review
Liz and the Blue Bird (2018) Juan Barquin Yamada equates the love between these two young women to a concert, impossible to perform unless there's communication and the two musicians fall perfectly in step with each other.
Posted Sep 17, 2021  Edit critic review
Cam (2018) Juan Barquin It's not a stretch to say that this unique and colorful techno-horror work of art is a perfect example of how queerness exists within genre cinema, both explicitly and subtly.
Posted Sep 17, 2021  Edit critic review
Zola (2020) Juan Barquin Rooms feel as claustrophobic as they are expansive, with mirrors being the only consistent feature. Even when one tries to look away, the situation they're in is reflected back at them.
Posted Sep 17, 2021  Edit critic review
Joe Bell (2020) Juan Barquin Every time the film even considers criticizing Bell for what he's doing, it backpedals immediately for fear of noting the truth.
Posted Sep 17, 2021  Edit critic review
B
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021) Murtada Elfadl Tammy Faye was inherently an exaggerated personality. Chastain leans into that trait. She doesn't shy away from playing up Tammy Faye's performative flamboyance. And that's why she succeeds. It's a bold, audacious, and funny performance.
Posted Sep 16, 2021  Edit critic review
A
Isle of Dogs (2018) Josh Encinias While Wes Anderson's movies are firmly heterosexual, Isle of Dogs shows gay compassion as a timely political gesture.
Posted Jun 25, 2020  Edit critic review
Boy Erased (2018) Juan Barquin It's a drama that takes deep pleasure in watching its protagonist suffer, never really taking a single moment to explore his mental state unless it's being yelled at the audience or another character on screen.
Posted Nov 21, 2018  Edit critic review
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) Juan Barquin To think about how much is missing from Bohemian Rhapsody hurts, not simply because it doesn't paint a full picture of the man we know as Freddie Mercury, but because it paints something that doesn't feel honest.
Posted Nov 01, 2018  Edit critic review
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