Eric Langberg

Eric Langberg Everything's Interesting Feb 22, 2026 Culture is a mess, and this movie is kind of a mess, but to my eye, it’s a mess that’s messy because it’s reflecting the larger mess. That’s what makes it so fun, and that’s why I want to call dibs on the reclamation essay a few decades from now. Go to Full Review Psycho Killer (2026) 9% - -

Eric Langberg Everything's Interesting Nov 23, 2025 This is a fascinating film, a riveting journalistic endeavor that will stand as one of the best movies of the year in any category. It’s moving and sad, both maddening and mystifying. Go to Full Review The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo (2025) 92% - -

Eric Langberg Everything's Interesting Oct 22, 2025 When you’re a teenager, petty arguments with your parents do seem like the end of the world, and Rebel understands and remembers that in ways most movies do not. Go to Full Review Rebel Without a Cause (1955) 91% 88%

Eric Langberg Everything's Interesting Oct 21, 2025 ... simultaneously a touching coming-of-age story about two high school best friends who hang on the precipice of adulthood, while also being a thriller about the moral necessity of resistance to authoritarianism Go to Full Review Happyend (2024) 98% - -

Eric Langberg Everything's Interesting Oct 14, 2025 There were many walkouts. A guy in my row snored loudly for like fifteen minutes somewhere in the middle. There was much audible consternation when the credits rolled. Great film! Go to Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 89% - -

Eric Langberg Everything's Interesting Oct 14, 2025 Harris Dickinson has already cemented himself as a great actor; here, he proves himself to be a tremendous director of actors. The film stars Frank Dillane as a man named Mike, and it’s one of the best performances of the year. Go to Full Review Urchin (2025) 96% - -

Eric Langberg Everything's Interesting Oct 11, 2025 It plays like a gripping anxiety attack on celluloid, locking us in with a phenomenal actress for almost two hours as she faces the slow unraveling of every single facet of her life. What a journey. Go to Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% - -

Eric Langberg Everything's Interesting Oct 6, 2025 [Jennifer Lopez is] utterly captivating, impossible to look away from; you completely buy that a lonely gay boy would be obsessed with every swish of her hips as she swans about the screen in dresses dripping with sparkles. Go to Full Review Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) 76% - -

Eric Langberg Everything's Interesting Oct 2, 2025 There are some clear budgetary considerations at play here—sometimes the editing gets clunky, hiding a gore effect or violent stunt they couldn’t pull off—but it’s easy to forgive that stuff when there’s so much clear intention bursting from every frame. Go to Full Review Bone Lake (2024) 84% - -

Eric Langberg Everything's Interesting Sep 20, 2025 Despite its noble intentions, this is one of the worst movies of the year, and I fear that describing why — that simply typing out some of the things that happen in this film — will get me put on some kind of list. Go to Full Review Doin' It (2024) 50% - -

Eric Langberg Everything's Interesting Sep 17, 2025 This is a movie all about the erotics of shame, about the way that gay men throughout history had to find their own spaces, their own forms of communication, of expressing attraction ... It’s one of the best movies of the year. Go to Full Review Plainclothes (2025) 82% - -

Eric Langberg Everything's Interesting Sep 15, 2025 This is, above all, a work of radical empathy. Go to Full Review Flamingo Camp (2025) - - - -

Eric Langberg Everything's Interesting Sep 14, 2025 The documentary brilliantly conveys that, while drag is now a viable career path to fame and fortune, it used to be a provocative, dangerous, daring art form… and perhaps it could be again, if we follow Dean’s lead. Go to Full Review The Big Johnson (2025) - - - -

Eric Langberg Everything's Interesting Sep 12, 2025 It knows exactly who its audience is, and it doesn’t spend a moment trying to explain things to people who were never going to be on board. At its best, snappiest moments, the jokes fly fast and furious — and fierce and fabulous. Go to Full Review Maxxie LaWow: Drag Super-shero (2025) - - - -

Eric Langberg Everything's Interesting Sep 12, 2025 Sometimes it seems like [Josh O'Connor] is holding back the biggest, most charismatic grin you’ve ever seen, and sometimes he seems like he’s barely hiding the pain of the saddest boy in the world. Go to Full Review The History of Sound (2025) 69% - -

Eric Langberg Everything's Interesting Sep 6, 2025 By keeping its focus on these two people in love — these two achingly-human characters portrayed by two incredible actors — Preparation for the Next Life makes visible the [human] toll of talking about things like immigration enforcement in the abstract. Go to Full Review Preparation for the Next Life (2025) 97% - -

Eric Langberg Everything's Interesting Sep 5, 2025 Suffice it to say that this is one of the best movies of the year, an instant queer classic, and the kind of movie you’ll want to watch all over again as soon as you’ve seen how it all plays out. Go to Full Review Twinless (2025) 97% - -

Eric Langberg Everything's Interesting Sep 3, 2025 Is this a case of deep, deep denial, or is it deception? Using her own archive, [director Andres] Veiel essentially gives Riefenstahl enough rope to hang herself. Go to Full Review Riefenstahl (2024) 97% - -

Eric Langberg Everything's Interesting Sep 1, 2025 Taxi Zum Klo deserves to be remembered alongside the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder — which [Frank] Ripploh himself occasionally acted in — as a seminal work of queer art. Pun intended. Go to Full Review Taxi to the Toilet (1980) 96% 59%

Eric Langberg Everything's Interesting Aug 29, 2025 We Are Your Friends finds a generation and a country on the precipice of… something, a generation holding its breath while it wants to see what that something might be ... It's 2015, and we can tell the bottom is about to fall out of the world. Go to Full Review We Are Your Friends (2015) 40% 42%