A Simple Favor

Anna Kendrick turns unlikely sleuth in this deliciously twisted romp

"...all – that is, unless her own filthy secrets drag her down first...."

Sept. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

You Were Never Really Here

Joaquin Phoenix and Lynne Ramsay renew the revenger's tragedy.

"...those classics, her work is far from afraid to drag the audience through a little mud. Their stories of..."

April 13, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Other Side of Hope

Searching for a better tomorrow in Aki Kaurismäki's droll tale of immigrants and restaurants

"...with advances on their salaries, and taking in the bedraggled Khaled after finding the refugee sleeping in his alleyway...."

Jan. 5, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Murder on the Orient Express

You may want to cancel your ticket to this latest Christie adaptation

"...car, the film starts to feel like a real drag – a lot of telling not showing, not much..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

The Once and Future King gets a reboot

"...feet from the movie theatre floor. The story never drags – it’s too frenetically paced for that – but..."

May 12, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

HavenCon Creates Safe Spaces for Gaymers

LGBTQ gaming culture convention returns for its third year

"...closet, but our favorite way might be in a drag cosplay suit...."

April 26, 2017 Qmmunity Post by Courtney Naquin

Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?

Texas-set comedy riffs on Lysistrata

"...sign that lists the town’s population as 6,969 further drag down this cornpone comedy. And the appearance of Cloris..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Luv Doc: Into It

It's a real drag giving an anatomy lesson in the middle of a hot makeout sesh

"...button." Cough. "Good luck, fellas!" Similarly, it's a real drag giving an anatomy lesson in the middle of a..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

Star Trek Beyond

The Enterprise crew get trapped on a hostile planet

"...Elba, regrettably covered in rhino-hide-like prosthetics) is a real drag, and his superweapon, the Abronath, sounds like something jaunty..."

July 29, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Boiz of Summer

Austin's drag kings return with a new venue and new tricks

"...Resplendent in glossy wig and inky mermaid gown, Gemmi..."

July 15, 2016 Qmmunity Post by Louisa Jackson Spaventa

Gay Place: In & Out

Get in or get out! You can't lose with these Gay Place events.

"...L. Jones (Sunday) come to town. Out, way out: Drag queens at a Fiesta Texas Gay Day (Friday)? Save..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

Mamma Dallas Wants You

HBO is looking for the next drag superstar tomorrow in ATX

"...the heart of Texas, HBO is hosting an open drag-queen casting call for a new pilot, Mamma Dallas. Created..."

Nov. 14, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas

The auteur from Atlanta dons his Madea drag once more to spread holiday cheer.

"...films, if that is the right word, is Perry’s in-drag portrayal of the lead character. Madea is completely over-the-top,..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Serving up Bobcat Realness

Lambda of Texas State presents its beloved Bobcat Ball

"...What's better than drag show? How 'bout a drag show featuring competition with..."

Nov. 15, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

I Am Divine

Harris Glenn Milstead, the actor better known as the 300-pound sex symbol named Divine who appeared in those early John Waters' movies, is remembered in this doc.

"...the 300-pound sex symbol christened Divine, the Godzilla of drag queens. She was outrageousness personified, an exaggeration of female..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

10 Years

This ensemble comedy follows a group of friends on the evening of their 10th high school reunion.

"...It’s a toss-up as to which is the bigger drag: binge-drinking through your high school reunion and its dispiriting..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The AggreGAYtor: August 7

Your daily dose of LGBTQ news

"...Drag Race All-Stars revs up, Tig Notaro shares some bad..."

Aug. 7, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection

No luck: Madea doesn't assume a new identity and disappear. Instead the old gal takes in Eugene Levy, playing an investor implicated in a Ponzi scheme.

"...– the towering, take-no-guff matriarch played by Perry in drag – to stretch beyond her own family and African-American..."

July 6, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Gary Oldman is John le Carré's unflappable spy, George Smiley, in this dandy espionage tale.

"...People.) Though Smiley's been shown the door, ministry officials drag him back into the fray to investigate rumors that..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family

Madea is tasked once again with fixing a broken family.

"...movie featuring Madea – his self-essayed, no-nonsense matriarch in drag – following his bid for respectability with last year’s..."

April 29, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

This comedy starring Simon Pegg is based on Toby Young's memoir about working at Vanity Fair.

"...Dead, Pegg, and is directed by Weide, who helped drag comedy to new depths of corrosive elegance on Larry..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Angel-A

Luc Besson delivers a gorgeous-looking but ill-conceived mash note to the city of Paris that stars a petty crook and an ethereal beauty.

"...gives the not-all-that mysterious Angela a fine excuse to drag him to a discotheque where he gets sozzled while..."

July 13, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

She's the Man

Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night gets a teen-movie rehash in this manic panic of a mess that never rises to even the lowest levels of the Bard’s cross-dressing comedy of errors.

"...the astonishing footballer he once was. As Bynes dons drag and strives to ape the mannerisms of the modern..."

March 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tristan & Isolde

This new version of the timeless love story is a dopey, mopey, all-around bore.

"...in this dopey, mopey, all-around bore. The opening minutes drag out the backstory: Ireland at war with its charges..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Bee Season

Myla Goldberg’s novel about spelling-bee fever, a family in chaos, and religious/mystic exploration arrives on the screen with all its faults intact but few of its charms.

"...complexity. The adults, both badly miscast, are a real drag: Gere is about as Jewish as my German shepherd,..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Diary of a Mad Black Woman

The fitful story of how one black woman gets her groove back

"...scene. Despite the film’s hoary clichés and the bad drag of actor/screenwriter Tyler Perry (who plays three roles in..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bad Education

Almodóvar delivers the finest movie of his career: a film noir melodrama that maybe should be called film sanguine.

"...roles in the movie – one of them the drag artist Zahara – Bernal is spectacular. Whether playing a..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Spider-Man 2

Even superheroes have to do their own laundry in Sam Raimi's truly spectacular vision that combines human pathos and breathtaking action.

"...to 2002’s comic-book smash, Raimi has crafted a knock-down, drag-out, emotionally turbocharged movie that manages to live up to..."

July 2, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack

Gundam toy animé.

"...go: If they can make a hit out of Dragon Ball Z, then I suppose they can make a..."

April 16, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Die Mommie Die!

Charles Busch's campy send-up of Fifties melodrama falls flat.

"...A stage veteran known for frequently performing in expert drag, Busch (who also wrote the Die Mommie Die! script)..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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