One Battle After Another (2025) Watch it on your cell phone. C+
When you take away all the violence and the mayhem, this is a two daddies fighting over one baby movie. Strip away the facade, it’s old-time Hollywood schmaltz.
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Category: C+
Wonder Bar (1934) Queer Film C+
The movie is full of lavish production numbers, melodrama, and even a brief same-sex dance gag in which a man asks a couple if he can cut into their dance, and, while the woman says Sure, he dances away with her partner!
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Suddenly Last Summer (1959) Queer Film C+
The movie is risible, its few pleasures come from Hepburn’s regal (but very nasty) mother who will do anything to protect her son’s memory.
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That Touch of Mink (1962) Queer Film C+
In between the Rock Hudson movies “Lover Come Back” (1961) and “Send Me no Flowers” (1964), Doris Day paired up with Cary Grant.
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Inside Daisy Clover (1965) Queer Film C+
Robert Redford insisted that his character in the novel be changed from homosexual to bisexual. It was a brave role to take at the time, but it got him noticed.
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The Sergeant (1968) Queer Film C+
The subject matter, its release during the Christmas season, and a couple of scathing reviews by the major critics sealed its fate.
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The Boyfriend (1971) Queer Film C+
Although not explicitly gay, the film is filled with camp theatrical energy, exaggerated male dancers, coded glances and mannerisms, a backstage world where gender roles blur, and gay actor Max Adrian as Lord Brockhurst, the wealthy, eccentric aristocrat who attends the film’s show-within-a-show, bringing his trademark queer-coded presence. The Boyfriend is unmistakably queer in tone, style, and sensibility, putting it very much in line with Russell’s other 1970s work.
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Play It As It Lays (1972) Queer Film C+
Unfortunately, despite a good performance by Weld, the film only comes alive when she is driving endlessly around LA’s spectacular freeways.
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Female Trouble (1974) Queer Film C+ Solo High Camp at a Midnight Screening.
Waters’ favorite of all of his movies, with the incomparable Divine embracing ugliness, violence and spectacle in a bravura performance.
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Once is Not Enough (1975) Queer Film C+
Once is Not Enough benefits from strong performances by Smith, in her first appearance on screen in sixteen years and by Brenda Vaccaro as a high-powered magazine editor – Vaccaro received an Oscar nomination for her performance.
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In Celebration (1975) Queer Film C+
“In Celebration” is another filmed stage play that makes no attempts to hide its origin. However, the performers are so engaging that you stay with them. All of the actors have their moments, with Alan Bates making the most significant impression.
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The Ritz (1976) Queer Film C+
Part mob comedy and part drag review, this exhausting adaptation of Terence McNally’s hit play wears out its welcome in the first thirty minutes
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Car Wash (1976) Queer Film C+
You come to “Car Wash” for Antonio Vargas’ Lindy, who delivers razor-sharp shade to his homophobic coworker Duane (Bill Duke). You stay because a day at the Dee-Luxe Car Wash in Los Angeles is, despite the slurs, occasionally fun.
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THE TURNING POINT (1977) Queer Film C+
How this managed to get eleven Oscar nominations only Hollywood knows. Browne and Baryshnikov cannot act and all of their scenes are painful to watch.
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California Suite (1978) Queer Film C+
Meanwhile, Richard Prior, Bill Cosby and their onscreen partners suffer through one cringeworthy slapstick sequence after another.
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La Cage aux Folles (1979) Queer Film C+
“La Cage aux Folles”: What may have seemed like a scream fifty years ago now seems jaded, with just the occasional laugh. Still better than the US remake.
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