Lovely, gentle, small-scale New York HIV drama. Successfully got me invested in an almost-real character who represents that not-uncommon experience of queer artists diagnosed with the disease "outliving" the expectations of their family and loved ones. I was exposed to it from Derek Jarman's "At Your Own Risk": trying to go about everyday life while the question on everyone's lips is, "how much longer have you got?" There's a brief period of ambiguity in the film where we don't know…

My favourite Tsai Ming-Liang so far! Made with incredible formal precision, every frame dominated by one detail just peculiar enough that it sticks in our heads for the running time and beyond. The birdsong doorbell chime; the fusebox set into a wall panel next to a turreted backyard door; a glowing green Midori glass...

A kind of bisexual love triangle, albeit one where two of the vertices are really the same person, although they never meet. 4K restoration is gorgeous,…

Deliriously messy and weird! Like desire itself! A much more hopeful, life-affirming allegory than TV Glow, but just as rawly honest. Louise Weard's cameo made me burst out laughing.

Self-indulgent in the extreme, but for a film about self-indulgence, that's an essential operating force. Also contains the most postmodern, self-defeating product placement since Wayne's World. So dense with layers I can't decide what parts, if anything, are redundant. Maybe the David Lynch flattery-through-homage is a bit much, but I was…