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A
Girl Thing The
rise and fall of an unexpected lesbian relationship makes
for a very entertaining and thought-provoking story.
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Bridget
Jones: The Edge of Reason
An
embarrassment to women, especially straight women, and then
lesbians are dragged into the mess just for good measure. |
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Beautiful
Women A
warm German buddy movie about five women who unexpectedly
become friends. |
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Broken Flowers
Jessica Lange takes a queer turn in this movie starring Bill
Murray as a man who revisits his past. |
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Eternal
This
creepy, visually arresting movie makes a great new addition
to the vampire movie genre, but it's about as lesbian as Britney
and Madonna's kiss. |
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Goldfish
Memory
Goldfish
Memory focuses on the pitfalls and pratfalls of finding
love in modern society. Judging from the previews, the film
looked cute, romantic and funny; what it turned out to be
was a refreshing outlook on relationships coupled with poor
plotting and a lack of heart. |
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The
Haunting Catherine
Zeta Jones' Theo in The Haunting is still one of
the few positive and complicated bisexual women in a mainstream
Hollywood movie--a point which has mostly been lost amidst
the criticism of her bisexuality and all the complaints about
the movie itself. |
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Higher
Learning
Like most mainstream movies, Higher Learning's depiction
of lesbianism and bisexuality is both compelling and problematic.
Such an honest portrayal of bisexuality in a mainstream film
was almost unheard of in 1995, but the movie reinforces some
negative stereotypes about both lesbians and bisexuals.
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Kicking
and Screaming Lesbian soccer moms
in the latest big-budget Will Ferrell comedy can't make up
for a weak script, but they help. |
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Lily
Festival The
Japanese film Lily Festival explores the sexual antics
of a group of older women--including an evolving lesbian relationship--in
a way that is both dignified, humorous, and sexy. |
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Marion
Bridge The
powerful performances and well-written dialogue of the new
indie Canadian film Marion Bridge quickly make you
forget anything but the delicate dance between the three estranged
sisters, one of whom is a lesbian on
the verge of coming out.
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Mona
Lisa Smile Mona
Lisa Smile does an excellent job of conveying a world where
rules and restrictions abound and students are so well trained
they don't even question them. But an interesting setting can't
make up for the lack of a coherent, compelling narrative.
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Red
Doors In
this new offbeat drama, a young Asian American medical student
unexpectedly falls for an openly gay actress. |
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Risk/Reward
Of
the 1,336 members of the New York Stock Exchange, only 44
are women. Elizabeth Holder and Xan Parker take us into the
lives of four of them in the fascinating documentary Risk/Reward,
airing on the Oxygen Channel this month. |
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Songcatcher
Songcatcher
provides a rare and unusually sensitive portrayal of lesbianism
in an American historical drama. Elna's quiet defense of her
relationship with Harriet and endurance in the face of social
condemnation is moving, and the events surrounding their relationship
remind us both of how far we've come, and how far we have yet
to go. |
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She
Hate Me: Flawed but Fun
She Hate Me is a unique story
and Lee deserves credit for finding his own way to portray the
issues surrounding some of the more controversial current affairs.
The film is worth seeing for that reason alone, even with its
flaws. |
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She
Hate Me: A Frustrating Fantasy
The positive aspects of the film are far outweighed by numerous
negative ones, which include confusing bisexual women with lesbians,
reinforcing the idea that lesbians want to sleep with men, and
bringing the lesbian-motherhood cliche to the big screen. |
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thirteen
The
story of the briliant, disturbing movie thirteen
is deceptively simple, a chronicle of a really bad seventh
grade experience as Tracy meets bad-influence Evie and quickly
begins to spiral out of control. |
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Under
the Tuscan Sun The
new film Under the Tuscan Sun is exactly what it appears:
a light-hearted romantic comedy about
heartbreak and healing set in a picturesque small town
in Italy. What the promos don't tell you, however, is that the
main character has a lesbian best friend who takes a similar
journey in the film. |
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What's
Cooking? In
this movie about the Thanskgiving weekend celebration of four
different L.A. families, Rachel and Carla experience the lesbian
couple's version of hell: a big family dinner in
which they are supposed to pretend they're "just roommates"
because Rachel's parents don't want the other family members
to know the truth.
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