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  Review by junior ★★★★½

  I love a british gay film with a happy ending.

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  Review by foxinthesnow ★★★★½

  Jamie: Scared of being called "queer"?
  Ste: Are you?
  Jamie: Maybe... maybe not.
  Ste: And are ya?
  Jamie: Queer?
  Ste: Gay.
  Jamie: Very happy. I'm happy when I'm with you...

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  Review by Michael Scott ★★★★

  Coming out. It's a thing. It's still a thing even today. It's a thing that endures in queer culture long past what many would consider its usefulness. It remains our sub-cultural touchstone.

  We still see "coming out films" choking film festivals every year with their furtive glances, their awkward advances, their surprise outings, their familial retributions and their community reinforcement. And we still line up for them.

  What is it in this common experience that pushes our buttons so furiously? Why do we keep coming back? What is it in us that we want to relive? To celebrate... ad infinitum.

  You know what's coming, don't you? You're about to get my coming out story. And it is going to be…

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  Review by nathan ★★★★½

  there's a moment where two gays who've just admitted their feelings to each other run playfully through a forrest as 'make your own kind of music' plays and i've not stopped crying since

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  Review by weak lungs ★★★★ 1

  if i were all the sweet gay boys in the world watching this movie for the first time i'd be so emotional my entire body would collapse in my anus .. .(

  there was a guy here that had the manners and appearance of a spiritual hillbilly (stoner) and said stuff like
  1.what's age? age is just a number, you know.
  2. what's a place? a place is just somewhere that shit happens, you know.
  3. It's just shit, innit? - What? ---The whole concept, yeah...

  he was sweet too, although heterosexual

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  Review by rob☁️ ★★★★½

  Can we talk about Leah's LEWKS??!

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  Review by Fred 🇵🇷 ★★★

  The romance at the center of this film really is beautiful but you'd be forgiven for not feeling that way when so much of the movie around it feels superfluous and, at worst, annoying. There's a wonderfully warm and touching version of this buried in there somewhere and the rushed bits of it that appear in 'Beautiful Thing' are some kind of magical.

  P.S. Leah is one of the most awful characters I've had the displeasure of knowing this year. The way I was rooting for her to fall over the edge of the balcony every time she was near it...

  Scavenger Hunt 87 - #8 - Directed by a woman sub.

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  Review by Cormac 👑 ★★★★½ 16

  Beautiful Thing is above all a film about self discovery, finding out who you are by seeing yourself in others not unlike you. More imperatively, maybe, it’s to do with finding that one likeminded soul who gives you the room necessary to grow into the very best version of yourself.

  As human beings, it’s all too easy to forget that we don’t come out of the womb fully formed and ready to tackle the big bad world, fangs et. al. Even easier to dismiss altogether is the importance of a solid support system, a healthy backbone upon which we can fall back on when our shoulders can’t quite handle the weight of the day in-day out cycle.

  In terms of…

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  Review by leo ★★★½ 2

  tell me why this twink is the spit of tom holland

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  Review by Jerry McGlothlin ★★★

  What a sweet and tender little film! Macdonald realizes a world full of idiosyncratic characters and, in the midst of it all, a heartfelt love story between two young neighbors. The two teens are shown in an honest light and their budding love is gently exposed with time and a mutual understanding of who they are. A rare case of an undeniably feel-good story from the queer cinema movement of the 90s, I think that what Beautiful Thing does best is it doesn’t focus on gay trauma like many of its contemporaries, nor does it act like what our two main characters are going through will go unscrutinized by those around them; relatively realistic while maintaining an upbeat and often times…

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  Review by Rick ★★★★★

  This is THE coming out film based in London and has Shirley from EastEnders in it as Jamie's mum - always brings a tear to my eye when I watch it.

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  Review by Paul ★★★½

  Oh this one was SOMETHING. It goes back and forth between being something genuinely moving and partly offensive so much that these two tones combine to reflect a realistic but beautifully hopeful story. The gay love story here is really moving and the characters themselves are so charming. It’s honestly a 3 but that ending is one for the BOOKS. A great one to watch for pride month even though you’ll have to throw all care for questionable dialogue/subject matter out the window. Then again my favorite director is gregg araki and it doesn’t go nearly as far as he does so maybe it’s fine I don’t know. If The Mamas and The Papas are on the soundtrack it’s automatically a good movie I do not make the rules