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.

Englishwomen band together when they learn that the public bathhouse they frequent for relaxation will be closed down.
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.
As one of the women said in the film, friendship in your teens is “as important as any lover” and it’s clear they lived that philosophy throughout their early adult lives as well.
As an Indian lesbian living in the United Kingdom, the cards are stacked against Geetika from the start.
A young girl named Hailey Mays sings a country song that is named after the film's title.
Overall, Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is plagued by numerous flaws, both from a quality and from a diversity standpoint. The film relies on gore and loud sounds to drown out its flat script, flatter dialogue, and one-dimensional characters.
What starts off as a success story for a single mother living below the poverty line, slowly begins to weave itself into a tangled web of greed, guilt, and destruction.