Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Bruno (2009) | "
Just like with Ali G and Borat, Sacha as Brüno tricks famous faces into doing ridiculous interviews. This includes singers Paula Abdul and Latoya Jackson, who both leave within minutes after being served sushi on a naked Mexican." — outrate.net Posted Jun 18, 2009 |
N/A | Fresh 93%
| Milk (2008) | "
I found Milk's Latin paramour desperately needy and relentlessly annoying. Hectoring Harvey with whiny phone calls and poorly penned notes. It was enough to make one wonder if Milk egged White on, just to get a moment's peace." — outrate.net
ESSAY Posted Feb 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| Doubt (2008) | "
As the lemon-sucking, bonnet-shackled Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the godly dragon lady of St Nicholas Catholic school in the Bronx, Meryl Streep delivers the worst performance of her career." — outrate.net Posted Feb 10, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 61%
| Valkyrie (2008) | "
A one-man Hollywood on legs, Cruise is Eyes by Newman, Nose by Streisand, Body by Brando, Brain by Mickey Mouse." — outrate.net Posted Jan 28, 2009 |
N/A | Fresh 86%
| Brokeback Mountain (2005) | "
Heath Ledger deserved his Oscar nomination, but it wasn't really a major Oscar-winning performance. Ledger impressed me at first with his muted, strangled delivery, but he showed little development over time ... (Camille Paglia)" — outrate.net
INTERVIEW Posted Jan 15, 2009 |
— | N/A | Rodeu-mubi (2002) |
Click here to read article — outrate.net Posted Jan 8, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) | "
when Casey Affleck beats Brad Pitt to a Best Actor Oscar nomination for the film come January, remember that you heard it here first." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 30, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| The History Boys (2006) | "
I never saw the madly popular stage version of The History Boys, but I felt like I had after I sat through this almost amateurishly strange, two-dimensional version of it." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 14, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 83%
| Somersault (2006) | "
The gay subplot is the highlight of the film. \Free of the slack pretensions that saturate the rest of Somersault, the sequences between Joe and Richard (Erik Thomson), an older guy who recognizes Joe's furtive glances, are concise and suspenseful." — outrate.net Posted Mar 15, 2007 |
Rotten
| N/A | Butterfly: A Grimm Love Story (2007) | "
Armin Meiwes is currently in a German jail for biting and cutting off Bernd Brandes' penis, frying it and serving it as a light meal for the both of them, before slaughtering Brandes, carving his body into choice cuts and storing them in the fridge." — outrate.net Posted Mar 15, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 45%
| Cut Sleeve Boys (2006) | "
This dreadful and inane minstrel show takes its title from a poem written by a Han Emperor who cut off the sleeve of his beautiful robe so he could get out of bed without waking his sleeping male concubine." — outrate.net Posted Mar 15, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Paper Dolls (2006) | "
Heymann seems to be a big-hearted guy who, despite his own admission that he's happy to be alone, wants to push his Paper Dolls into as much happiness as they can find." — outrate.net Posted Mar 15, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 43%
| Broken Sky (2006) | "
I agree with Salma Hayek, who exclaimed "so many Mexicans!" while announcing the nominations for the 2007 Oscars ceremony, that the past twelve months have featured a bounty of great Mexican films." — outrate.net Posted Mar 15, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Notes on a Scandal (2006) | "
Does anyone else note the similarities between Cate Blanchett and Kate Bush? They have the same first names, physically resemble each other, remain aloof from tabloid hoopla, and share the same kind of elysian artistic genius." — outrate.net Posted Mar 15, 2007 |
— | Rotten 0%
| The Singing Forest (2003) |
Click here to read article — outrate.net Posted Dec 30, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 54%
| Adam & Steve (2006) | "
Surprisingly, there are some merits in this latest dropping from the despicable Zany Gay Romantic Comedy factory." — outrate.net Posted Dec 4, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Yentl (1983) | "
Like Yentl herself, the movie is constantly in search of who and what it is, only finds itself thwarted by certain circumstances, and sails off the screen still searching, leaving us unsatisfied rather than uplifted" — outrate.net Posted Dec 4, 2006 |
Rotten
| N/A | October Moon (2006) | "
what a strange choice, to set a weirdo gay stalker loose with some rope and a set of steak knives amid a sea of gay-tolerance platitudes" — outrate.net Posted Dec 4, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Gay Sex in the 70's (2005) | "
the title is rather misleading as though we hear a lot about sex venues and see the odd xxx-pic or clip, there isn't a great deal of gay sex in Gay Sex in the 70's" — outrate.net Posted Dec 4, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 65%
| Shortbus (2006) | "
Even as Mitchell pursues his gently romantic anti-agenda it's explicit three-way sex scenes or the appearance of remote-control vaginal vibrating-egg sex toys that move his tale along" — outrate.net Posted Dec 4, 2006 |
N/A | N/A | Hustler White (1996) | "
Before AIDS, gays were more of an avant-garde, more subversive and underground, and more of an invisible influence on fashion, art, and culture. AIDS activism forced a lot of gays to become more visible and institutionalizedin order to take on the governm" — outrate.net
INTERVIEW Posted Oct 16, 2006 |
N/A | Fresh 73%
| Showboy (2004) | "
Vegas is like no place on earth. It's completely fake and real at the same time. Joy and desperation around every corner. We wanted to see the Vegas behind the glitz and the glamour." — outrate.net
INTERVIEW Posted Oct 16, 2006 |
N/A | Fresh 95%
| Midnight Express (1978) | "
No good hash in CA anymore. I like to smoke pot. Mostly I do daily yoga and appreciate the fact that I'm healthy, free, my wife loves me, and nobody's beating my feet..." — outrate.net
INTERVIEW Posted Oct 16, 2006 |
N/A | N/A | Politically Incorrect With Bill Maher - An Evening With Camille Paglia () | "
Brokeback Mountain was certainly pioneering in the persuasive way it made a sexual relationship between men emotionally credible to a straight audience. Director Ang Lee rightly won the Oscar for that.But I don't think Brokeback Mountain is a great film." — outrate.net
INTERVIEW Posted Oct 16, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| The Object Of My Affection (1998) | "
a surprisingly gutsy film that gets better as it goes along" — outrate.net Posted Oct 7, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Law of Desire (1987) | "
Antonio Banderas was originally called José Antonio Domínguez Bandera (note the missing "s") before Almodóvar suggested he change his name" — outrate.net Posted Oct 7, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| Stonewall (1996) | "
The Stonewall legend never really knows what to do with itself - we know that drag queens led the riots, but conservative gay activists are always happy to insert their own ancestors into the record." — outrate.net Posted Oct 7, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 64%
| Deathtrap (1982) | "
Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve apparently drank litres of alcohol to get through their dreaded male-male kiss scene in Deathtrap, but you'll need something stronger than alcohol to stay interested in this movie." — outrate.net Posted Oct 7, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| The Wild Side (2005) | "
Elliptic films of this type invariably drown in their own inscrutability but there's an emotional and psychological authenticity here that elevates Wild Side from the problems of its coma-inducing genre." — outrate.net Posted Oct 7, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 59%
| Jeffrey (1995) | "
Jeffrey is, easily, the worst gay-themed film ever made." — outrate.net Posted Oct 7, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 76%
| Burnt Money (2001) | "
Druggy but expert armed robbers, Angel and Nene escape to Uruguay when a hold-up in Argentina goes wrong." — outrate.net Posted Oct 7, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Tying the Knot (2005) | "
Tying the Knot's heart-on-its-sleeve makes for several serious missteps." — outrate.net Posted Oct 7, 2006 |
— | N/A | Days (2002) |
Click here to read article — outrate.net Posted Oct 7, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 68%
| Bent (1997) | "
A sentimental mock-Jewish string score, bony lead actors and heartless SS guards fill up a very stock picture of martyrs at the mercy of a cruel world." — outrate.net Posted Oct 7, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Silence of the Lambs (1991) | "
Misguided and counterproductive gay activists set upon The Silence of the Lambs and made fools out of themselves simplifying and misinterpreting certain elements of a complex cinematic masterpiece." — outrate.net Posted Oct 7, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Bad Education (2004) | "
Bad Education is missing the fairy dust that made All About My Mother such a magical masterpiece." — outrate.net Posted Oct 7, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| All About My Mother (1999) | "
Huma, a chain-smoking diva in the style of Bette Davis, doesn't seem to distinguish between her offstage self and her role as Blanche duBois, while Manuela becomes, for a moment, a fusion of Eve Harrington and Stella Kowalski." — outrate.net Posted Oct 7, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005) | "
Kilmer and Downey Jr spar well together, in several truly hilarious exchanges, but their characters are so well drawn and the Black's script so brainy that stale home/hetero tit-for-tats over handfuls of donuts during the stakeout do not occur." — outrate.net Posted Oct 7, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) | "
Frank seduces both Brad and Janet, kills a love rival who's been imprisoned in a deep freeze (played by Meatloaf) with a pick, and tries to keep a tight leash on the energetic Rocky." — outrate.net Posted Oct 7, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 26%
| Anatomy of Hell (2004) | "
A beautiful but nameless woman (Amira Casar) tries to kill herself in the toilets of a gay disco. One of the gay clubbers, a handsome and also nameless man (Italian porn superstar Rocco Siffredi), rescues her." — outrate.net Posted Oct 7, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| Summer Storm (2006) | "
I think it's interesting that hetero coming-of-age, teen-love films tend to be broad frat-house comedies a la American Pie while gay versions on the theme lean towards a lushly romanticised, almost tragic vision of innocence lost." — outrate.net Posted Oct 7, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 63%
| You'll Get Over It (2002) | "
Yet another troubled-gay-teen dragged Christ-like through the wringer of high-school-hell film." — outrate.net Posted Oct 7, 2006 |
Rotten
| N/A | Death in Venice (1990) | "
Homosexual attraction in Death In Venice is such an isolated, intellectual quest that it has no carnality, and becomes something like a mania or temporary fever-induced mental attack." — outrate.net Posted Oct 7, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 57%
| Beefcake (1999) | "
Bob Mizer was the enterprising creator of the Athletic Model Guild, a modelling agency and publishing house that celebrated 1950s-style beefacke bodybuilders through its R-rated magazine "Physique Pictorial"" — outrate.net Posted Oct 7, 2006 |
— | Fresh 76%
| Tropical Malady (2005) |
Click here to read article — outrate.net Posted Oct 7, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Labyrinth of Passion (1982) | "
Look, this isn't Almodóvar's best film. His second feature, it's a pretty low-budget, low frills affair and the signature kinks are shrill and unhewn." — outrate.net Posted Oct 7, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 46%
| Food of Love (2002) | "
Paul (Kevin Bishop) is a capable pianist, but not talented enough to break into recital hall superstardom." — outrate.net Posted Oct 7, 2006 |
— | Fresh 75%
| Transamerica (2005) |
Click here to read article — outrate.net Posted Oct 7, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 16%
| Alexander (2004) | "
Anthony Hopkins, made up to look about a hundred and fifty, plays a narrator who records Alexander's life at the library of Alexandria, a grand building which in this film looks more like Elton John's bathroom or the set for an ad for "Kouros"." — outrate.net Posted Oct 7, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Paragraph 175 (2000) | "
Made by the Academy Award winning team responsible for Common Threads: Stories From The Quilt, Paragraph 175 is a predictably excellent documentary that explores the haunting memories of a group of gay and lesbian Holocaust survivors with subtlety." — outrate.net Posted Oct 7, 2006 |
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