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  Review by Sally Jane Black 22

  What an infuriating film.

  I remember the first time I watched this, in a friend's dorm room nearly two decades ago. They knew I'd like the glam rock; they didn't know I was a woman. The song "Wig in a Box" tore me apart inside, touched the edges of the knowledge of myself that I was so afraid of and so desperate to understand and to live. I couldn't explain it then, but the movie felt so powerful to me. And yet, so... wrong.

  The themes of identity and gender and sexuality indulged in this film reflect an incomplete understanding of what it means to be trans. They're a reflection of the dialectics of gender theory present over the course…

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  Review by Cole ★★★★½

  Anyone who likes this movie is probably on some level a good person.

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  Review by {Todd} ★★★★ 1

  "Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior?" - Johnny,
  "No, but I admire his work" - Hedwig,

  Hedwig is an incredibly depressing story told in an upbeat music format and it is fantastic. If production value and acting had been better I believe this is close to a perfect movie. The music is really fantastic and the stakes of the film say a lot about depression, human isolation, and general paths to happiness. The film leaves you with a lot to think about... which is what good movies should do.

  Recommended to all.

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  Review by john ★★★★★ 1

  cinema was actually invented when tommy is singing the wicked little town reprise and stops mouthing the words right before "you know you can follow my voice" but the song keeps playing

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  Review by john ★★★★★

  the soundtrack slaps

  the cinematography and editing are fucking impeccable

  the story is beautiful and sad

  i currently have two different interpretations on the ending at the moment, but i think the ambiguous-factor really adds to it. but the ending was a little insane. in a god way. but insane nonetheless.

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  Review by kyle ★★★½

  something about gay movies that don't mistreat and silence their gay characters and instead let them scream... mmm very good

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  Review by Logan Kenny ★★

  while it’s definitely aware of the emotional abuse its protagonist inflicts onto their boyfriends, with the possessiveness and grooming they subject Tommy to, and the outright apathetic cruelty towards their new husband who they hold systematic power over; there’s a limit to how much I can watch an abuser’s perspective, especially when it ends in glam rock. Tommy is the saddest character in film history, a young kid desperate for a purpose, desperate for someone to love him, who will crawl back every single time to the person that hurts him because he thinks that he can’t live without them. I remember being that kid. a part of me still is. movie’s fine. too long at 95, it drags in…

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  Review by john ★★★★★

  You ever just been minding your business and then get one-two punched by the Wicked Little Town reprise and Midnight Radio.

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  Review by Holly-Beth ★★★★★ 2

  full offence, okay lads, this is better than all of the imdb top 250 movies... combined...

  genuinely one of the most original musicals i've seen in a long, long time! i was completely transfixed for the entire runtime. i'm going to be listening to the soundtrack on repeat for approximately.... the rest of my life

  the greatest movie of all time... ?

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  Review by lauren ★★★★ 1

  tbt to when nph made out with his husband during the tony performance of sugar daddy

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  Review by james💫 ★★★

  i now know bras can’t go in the dryer

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  Review by Ella Kemp ★★★★

  Oh my god why isn’t John Cameron Mitchell writing and performing the music for every film ever?? The Origin of Love is one of the best songs ever written, no doubt about it