Sarah Fonseca

Sarah Fonseca Vague Visages Apr 2, 2024 JT LeRoy is a movie suiting those who, at minimum, can entertain the idea that we might not get what we desperately want. Go to Full Review J.T. LeRoy (2018) 55% - -

Sarah Fonseca Reverse Shot Dec 10, 2020 To fully appreciate Kate Winslet's rugged performance as Mary, viewers should consider where her career essentially began:... in 1994's ripped-from-the-headlines thriller Heavenly Creatures. Go to Full Review Ammonite (2020) 70% 85%

Sarah Fonseca them. Jun 18, 2019 There is suspense, sex. There are slayings. Yet often, we are instructed to approach with caution, as we are often their casualties. This difference in Knife+Heart is that queer characters are allowed prominent roles in their own tale. Go to Full Review Knife + Heart (2018) 81% - -

Sarah Fonseca them. Jun 18, 2019 This is not a story of winning a lover back, or getting over a lover with another. It's a languid story of learning to sit with uneasiness, smartly guised as a genre piece. Go to Full Review Clementine (2019) 62% 42%

Sarah Fonseca them. Jun 18, 2019 Matthew Wollin's first feature might be a shoestring indie with only two settings - a bachelor pad and a police station interrogation room - and a single camera set-up, but it keeps us enraptured until the very end. Go to Full Review The Skin of the Teeth (2019) 71% - -

Sarah Fonseca Reverse Shot Apr 22, 2019 The power of Kahiu's film is its articulation that faith can be as primal as what draws the girls to one another. Go to Full Review Rafiki (2018) 94% - -

Sarah Fonseca Vague Visages Apr 12, 2019 This is the film that some, regally bored with the Strong Female Lead category's refusal to deliver little else but clean-nosed heroines and transcendent victims, have been waiting for. Go to Full Review Her Smell (2018) 83% - -

Sarah Fonseca Autostraddle Nov 13, 2018 Talking about class can be ugly. Yet as AWOL asserts, when you dare to comment, sometimes it frees up room for beauty to unfurl. Go to Full Review AWOL (2016) 93% 55%

Sarah Fonseca Autostraddle Nov 13, 2018 It's surprising how little Broomfield inserts himself into the narrative...[he] is respectful and Crawford is only present in old footage... Go to Full Review Whitney: Can I Be Me (2017) 86% 63%

Sarah Fonseca them. Nov 10, 2018 Ronit's complexity never fully comes across in the film... Go to Full Review Disobedience (2017) 84% 75%

Sarah Fonseca them. Nov 10, 2018 Horror allows Thelma to work with the history queer people have been dealt; the genre never requests an apology for yesterday's transgressions, but it might seek reparations by giving the viewer a few spooks. Go to Full Review Thelma (2017) 92% 77%

Sarah Fonseca them. Nov 10, 2018 Intended to be an exploration of the attitudes and anxiety surrounding the AIDS crisis, Safe still possesses the ability to leave viewers breathless and squirming in their seats. Go to Full Review Safe (1995) 87% 75%

Sarah Fonseca them. Nov 10, 2018 Jennifer's Body now ticks all of the boxes for what film audiences are now desperately demanding from Hollywood... Go to Full Review Jennifer's Body (2009) 47% 35%

Sarah Fonseca them. Nov 10, 2018 Cruelly ahead of its time... Go to Full Review The Owls (2010) - - 9%

Sarah Fonseca Autostraddle Nov 3, 2018 While it would be easy to create a sterilized portrait of the accomplished intellectual, Kates refrains from doing so. Go to Full Review Regarding Susan Sontag (2014) 86% 58%

Sarah Fonseca Autostraddle Nov 3, 2018 When I watched My Girl as a kid, I spent 80% of the movie having Schwinn Bicycle and mood ring envy. Now, I'm also able to appreciate [the] dialogue... Go to Full Review My Girl (1991) 57% 77%

Sarah Fonseca Autostraddle Nov 3, 2018 The intermittently-spersed electric guitar solos make the movie a little less Revolution Grrrl Style Now and a lot more ABC After-School Special. Go to Full Review Foxfire (1996) 50% 65%

Sarah Fonseca Wussy Mag Nov 3, 2018 Through Coppola's lens, The Beguiled finally returns to the female-centric perspective of Cullinan's novel. Go to Full Review The Beguiled (2017) 79% 48%

Sarah Fonseca Fandor Nov 2, 2018 Quiet Heroes is worthy of a loud round of applause. Go to Full Review Quiet Heroes (2018) 80% - -

Sarah Fonseca Lambda Literary Nov 2, 2018 It's a pleasure to see Justin Torres' quiet wisdom brought to visual life. Go to Full Review We the Animals (2018) 92% 75%