Xtra Magazine

Pat Mullen Xtra Magazine Nov 21, 2025 If the first Wicked offered an exercise in holding space, then Wicked: For Good serves a lesson in claiming space. Go to Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% - -

Pat Mullen Xtra Magazine May 14, 2025 Germaine and their co-stars deliver rich, fully lived-in performances by doing away with the exposition, coming out narratives, and affirmation stories that too frequently define queer characters. Go to Full Review Spark (2024) - - - -

Rendy Jones Xtra Magazine Apr 17, 2025 Ahn’s Wedding Banquet is a cozy update made for the queer masses. Go to Full Review The Wedding Banquet (2025) 86% - -

Pat Mullen Xtra Magazine Sep 22, 2024 Really Happy Someday offers a striking metaphor for what it means to find one’s voice anew. Go to Full Review Really Happy Someday (2024) - - - -

Tariq Ra'ouf Xtra Magazine Jul 9, 2024 "Filled with heart, and gives us hope for what the future of storytelling looks like." Go to Full Review The Queen of My Dreams (2023) 89% - -

Rendy Jones Xtra Magazine Nov 25, 2023 Kore-eda’s Monster is an astonishing, intimate tale; its dense plotting and subtle foreshadowing keep you in suspense until the shattering finale. It’s a profoundly poetic tale and one of the year’s best dramas. Go to Full Review Monster (2023) 97% 93%

Barry Levitt Xtra Magazine Oct 25, 2023 Dicks: The Musical is the perfect crowd-pleasing movie for people who hate crowd-pleasing movies. Go to Full Review Dicks: The Musical (2023) 68% 66%

Pat Mullen Xtra Magazine Oct 10, 2023 [As] the kids learn what it means to take ownership of a label that’s been used to beat them down, one could hardly expect to see a more empowering portrait of queerness. Go to Full Review Soft (2022) - - - -

Pat Mullen Xtra Magazine Oct 10, 2023 It’s a portrait of sisterhood and family ties in which audiences, from any background, can probably see their own relationships reflected on screen. Go to Full Review Something You Said Last Night (2022) 93% - -

Pat Mullen Xtra Magazine Oct 10, 2023 Nimona is set to be one of the great films of 2023 for queer representation and positivity. It’s refreshing to see a film that’s more concerned with getting it right than getting it done first. Go to Full Review Nimona (2023) 92% 91%

Pat Mullen Xtra Magazine Oct 10, 2023 While Solo situates Simon’s growth within a clearly defined chosen family, the film ultimately hinges on Pellerin’s performance. It’s a lively star-is-born turn in which one sees an actor fully come into his own. Go to Full Review Solo (2023) 95% 80%

Sara Clements Xtra Magazine May 20, 2023 You Can Live Forever is a powerful story of young love, religion and queerness. Emotionally stirring as it follows two teens experiencing all the longing, anxiety and joy of first love, but under the stifling grip of blind faith. Go to Full Review You Can Live Forever (2022) 91% 75%

Rendy Jones Xtra Magazine Feb 14, 2023 A once-in-a-lifetime cinematic musical odyssey, unlike anything I’ve seen before. Go to Full Review Moonage Daydream (2022) 92% 75%

Rendy Jones Xtra Magazine Feb 14, 2023 Cortés’s craftsmanship and Little Richard’s fascinating ability as a storyteller elevate the film as a mighty, affirming declaration that the culture of rock ’n’ roll would not be where it is today without him. Go to Full Review Little Richard: I Am Everything (2023) 94% 98%

Sara Clements Xtra Magazine Aug 24, 2022 The film is an engrossing tale of self-discovery that applauds the evolving nature of human beings—the title, Please Baby Please, acting as both a request for pleasure and a cry for freedom. Go to Full Review Please Baby Please (2022) 77% 98%

Sara Clements Xtra Magazine Aug 20, 2022 Huesera is a brilliant horror film that tears apart the expectations of domesticity and motherhood, ripping the traditional definition of “settling down” out of the dictionary and swallowing it whole. Go to Full Review Huesera: The Bone Woman (2023) 98% 66%

Sara Clements Xtra Magazine Dec 4, 2021 An absurdist story like this writes itself, but it takes a skilled writing team like Verhoeven and Elle writer David Birke to run with its kitsch and camp aesthetics to create a scathing critique of the Catholic Church. Go to Full Review Benedetta (2021) 84% 20%

Tre'vell Anderson Xtra Magazine Feb 10, 2020 This film is at once an accurately enraging revelation that makes me fearful for the future of our democracy, and an inspiringly galvanizing effort that unearths the glimmers of hope to which we can cling. Go to Full Review Boys State (2020) 95% 91%

Tre'vell Anderson Xtra Magazine Feb 10, 2020 The horror-comedy from the creator of Dear White People, however, doesn't quite stick its landing. Go to Full Review Bad Hair (2020) 62% 39%

Tre'vell Anderson Xtra Magazine Feb 10, 2020 It's necessary viewing, for trans and cis folk alike-and not just because I'm in it, too! Go to Full Review Disclosure (2020) 98% 87%