Toronto International Film Festival

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‘Emilia Pérez’ Is the Most Unique Cis Nonsense You’ll Ever See

There are many bad movies made by cis writers and directors about trans women. But you’ve never seen a bad movie about a trans woman like Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Jan 6, 2025

Toronto International Film Festival

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‘Babygirl’ Is As Smart as It Is Hot — And It’s Really Hot

There are limits and boundaries that vanish outside the paradigm of heterosexual expectations.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Dec 25, 2024

Toronto International Film Festival

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‘The Room Next Door’ Is Almodóvar’s Tribute to Life Through Death

If Pain and Glory was a reckoning with self and Parallel Mothers a reckoning with Spain, The Room Next Door is a reckoning with the entire world.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Dec 20, 2024

Toronto International Film Festival

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In ‘Queer’ Bicurious Boys Are Another Addiction

This isn’t just a film about queer characters with a queer form — it’s also a film with very specifically queer motivations and conflicts.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Dec 13, 2024

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Toronto International Film Festival

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‘Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara’ Is a Compassionate Mystery of a Parasocial Nightmare

The investigation that most needs to occur is an internal investigation done by all of us about how we think about celebrity and parasocial relationships.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Oct 18, 2024

Toronto International Film Festival

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‘Will and Harper’ Shows Friendship Is More Important Than Perfection

Will doesn’t have to be perfect to be a great friend to Harper, and this documentary doesn’t need to be perfect to be meaningful.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Sep 27, 2024

Toronto International Film Festival

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‘Rez Ball’ Is an Indigenous Sports Movie About a Queer High School Basketball Coach

Rez Ball reminds me of the sports movies I watched over and over again as a kid. Except none of those movies had a queer coach and featured a montage…

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Sep 27, 2024

Toronto International Film Festival

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TIFF 2024: A Queer and Trans Festival Recap

Thoughts and reviews on 41 movies from the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival — all the queer cinema and more!

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Sep 16, 2024

Toronto International Film Festival

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TIFF 2024: The Melodrama of ‘Daughter’s Daughter’ Fails Its Dead Lesbians

The lesbian character feels like a prop, a character meant to show up in flamboyant eye makeup, go through IVF, and then die.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Sep 14, 2024

Toronto International Film Festival

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TIFF 2024: ‘Bird’ Might Just Be Andrea Arnold’s Masterpiece

It’s thrilling to watch an artist as accomplished as Arnold reach a sort of apex of her talents while still pushing for reinvention. The result is a film that is…

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Sep 14, 2024

Toronto International Film Festival

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TIFF 2024: ‘Sad Jokes’ Is a Queer Story That Defies Genre

This is a very human film, but it’s also a very gay film with jokes that are sure to land even harder for queer audiences.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Sep 13, 2024

Toronto International Film Festival

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TIFF 2024: ‘Linda’ Uses Taboo Eroticism in Its Class Critique

The wrongness of the servant/matriarch relationship does not preclude these encounters from being very, very sexy.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Sep 11, 2024