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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The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) Queer Film C+
Because the story is airbrushed to the point of uncertainty, The Trials of Oscar Wilde pales by comparison with Oscar Wilde, the other Wilde movie to be released in 1960. Clearly, the more expensive movie, filmed in Technicolor – the cinematographer is Ted Moore – and with a large cast, The Trials of Oscar Wild boasts a better Bosie (John Fraser) and a better Queensbury (Lionel Jeffries) but a lesser Wilde (Peter Finch) and a lesser sense of the foreboding that precedes a tragedy.
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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, homophobic reviews by some major critics sealed its fate. It deserved better.
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Pete ‘n’ Tillie (1972) Queer Film C+
And then there Tillie’s other best friend Jimmy, the film’s token gay guy, played by René Auberjonois, who had one of the most memorable names in cinema.
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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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In Celebration (1975) Queer Film C+
“In Celebration” is another filmed stage play that makes no attempts to hide its origin. James Bolam’s queer Colin remains largely a sounding board for Alan Bates’ barbed wit and, as a Queer Film, it’s negligible.
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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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A Wedding (1978) Queer Film C+
The apparent “gay revelation” is therefore a visual misunderstanding—although Altman deliberately places it beside Rita’s very real lesbian advance, briefly making the bride believe that both halves of her brand-new marriage have suddenly become queer.
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La Cage aux Folles (1979) Queer Film C+
What may have seemed like a scream fifty years ago now seems jaded, with just the occasional laugh. Still, it’s way better than the labored US remake.
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