A Queer Review of the Austin Film Festival (2023)
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.

Students share their personal stories about being bullied and/or being impacted by teen suicide in Minnesota public schools across this short documentary. Topics covered in student stories include: race, ethnicity, autism, self-harm, suicide, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, LGBTQ discrimination, and legislative discrimination against minority students.
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.
I first saw Dear Evan Hansen on the Broadway stage. Apparently, I was so blown away by the magic of theater that I didn’t pick up on the questionable dynamics. The story's clumsy handling in the movie brought those issues to light.
Many have interpreted Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon as a dream sequence, but what if the repetitive scenes we are given are not dreams but, a time loop.
The Summer I Turned Pretty series adapts the beloved trilogy into a bingeworthy TV show and introduces a new generation to Belly, Conrad, and Jeremiah.
Personalities clash and tempers fume in a family-run Chicago restaurant
If “Good Time” was a lean exercise in suspense, “Uncut Gems” is an ongoing panic attack. It handcuffs us to an immoral man, made up of selfishness and unreliability. At every point, Adam Sandler connects himself to this idiotic soul, unearthing the misguided opportunism that comes with gambling addiction