10 Overlooked LGBTQ Movies
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To mark Pride 2020, The Hollywood Reporter's film critics David Rooney, Sheri Linden, and Jon Frosch chose 10 standout LGBTQ-themed movies that have largely fallen through the cracks and seem ripe for wider discovery.
Being 17
In his most personal film, 1994’s Wild Reeds, André Téchiné explored adolescent turbulence and sexual discovery in a rural setting ruptured by a distant war. - D.R.
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The D Train
The D Train excavates the homoeroticism of masculine hero worship, becoming the rare American film to portray male sexuality as — gasp! — fluid. — J.F.
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The Delta
The haunting film brings refreshing candor, as well as a contemplative stillness, to its observation of the push-pull bond between two characters drawn together by their sexuality but kept apart by issues of race, class and privilege. — D.R.
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End of the Century
It’s a film that feels tiny at first, but expands exhilaratingly in scope and implication, building to a melancholic wallop of a conclusion. — J.F.
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Kiki
An uplifting documentary revisiting the underground harbor for at-risk LGBTQ youth-of-color. — D.R.
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Lovesong
A minutely observed film about the complicated, ambiguous love between two former college besties. — J.F.
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My Friend Dahmer
Adaptation of a graphic novel by Derf Backderf, who knew serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer before he embarked on his path of gruesome crime — S.L.
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Princess Cyd
A coming-out coming-of-age drama. Its central duo are not romantic partners but virtual strangers getting acquainted: teenage athlete Cyd and her novelist aunt, Mirand. — S.L.
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Spa Night
A narratively spare study of a closeted young man in Los Angeles’ Koreatown, caught in an awkward limbo between accepting his sexual identity and bowing to stifling family expectations. — D.R.
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Women Who Kill
Women kill, kvetch, couple and podcast in Ingrid Jungermann’s nimble horror-tinged comedy, which nabbed screenplay honors at Tribeca and Outfest in 2016. — S.L.
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