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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Weapons (2025) 93% EDIT “Horror films often slash the picturesque portrait of American suburban life, but Weapons is at its best when it takes this one step further and really looks directly at the ways communities can tear themselves apart when focused on the wrong things. ” – Autostraddle Aug 15, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 78% EDIT “It’s such a bold, adventurous, scream of a film, but its queerness ends up dampened.” – Autostraddle Mar 17, 2025 Full Review A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter (2024) 100% EDIT “A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter is 50 minutes of pure musical nonsense... It’s made for those of us who know the truth about the holidays, which is that they’re a horny gay time.” – Autostraddle Dec 13, 2024 Full Review (This Is Not) A Christmas Movie (2024) EDIT “(This Is Not) A Christmas Movie is too gleeful in its naughtiness, tries too hard to be on bad behavior instead of making the characters feel more real. ” – Autostraddle Dec 13, 2024 Full Review Something in the Water (2024) 46% EDIT “Still, it’s a mostly fun late-summer film, would likely go down easy with a drinking game. ” – Autostraddle Sep 6, 2024 Full Review The Killer (2024) 59% EDIT “I don’t need Girl Power™ from my assassin movies; I want to see women in complex and morally complicated roles. ” – Autostraddle Aug 23, 2024 Full Review Backspot (2023) 87% EDIT “A visceral and dynamic sports film so centered on girlhood in ways that feel exciting and original, but a lot of that work is done by the directing more than the script itself. Regardless, it’s a striking entry into the queerleading canon...” – Autostraddle Jun 3, 2024 Full Review If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000) 60% EDIT “If These Walls Could Talk 2 asserts that lesbian couples could make their own families, make their own joy, even in times of rampant homophobia and sexism” – Autostraddle May 15, 2024 Full Review Appropriate Behavior (2014) 97% EDIT “Akhavan has no problem making us stay close and personal. Shirin holds people at a distance, but Akhavan’s approach to filmmaking is intensely intimate.” – Autostraddle Apr 23, 2024 Full Review Girls State (2024) 95% EDIT “Girls State isn’t quite the explosive takedown and critique of the program that it could be, but it does explore the program's limitations cogently...” – Autostraddle Apr 22, 2024 Full Review The Hours (2002) 79% EDIT “Even as it jumps between 20th century decades, The Hours is intensely, almost upsettingly linear. A lot like life.” – Autostraddle Mar 20, 2024 Full Review This Is Me... Now: A Love Story (2024) 75% EDIT “The only thing I like more than chair choreography? Rain choreography!” – Autostraddle Feb 23, 2024 Full Review All Fun and Games (2023) 33% EDIT “All Fun and Games doesn’t use this backstory to complicate or deepen the terrors of its present action... It just stabs itself in the foot and then struggles to run towards its finish line after a strong if straightforward opening act.” – Autostraddle Jan 9, 2024 Full Review It's a Wonderful Knife (2023) 55% EDIT “But despite a few fun kills, a promising premise, and a few performances that really hit the right tone of the film, it doesn’t live up to those ambitions, a redundant and contrived script holding it back from true slasher glory. ” – Autostraddle Dec 4, 2023 Full Review You're Not Supposed to Be Here (2023) EDIT “If you’re familiar with the Lifetime movie formula, nothing will really surprise you here. There’s something genuinely satisfying about watching the film check all its little boxes.” – Autostraddle Nov 7, 2023 Full Review Happy Ending (2023) 57% EDIT “But given the failures of character development, in the end, the threesome premise feels just like a cheap gimmick rather than a meaningful exploration of sex, boundaries, communication, and pleasure.” – Autostraddle Sep 12, 2023 Full Review Bottoms (2023) 91% EDIT “Bottoms is a boisterous and biting teen comedy that’s very on-the-nose and over-the-top about high school being a violent hellscape of social hierarchies and skin-tingling horniness. ” – Autostraddle Sep 8, 2023 Full Review Barbie (2023) 88% EDIT “Barbie does something more than just highlight the ridiculous and limiting nature of external and internalized misogyny.” – Autostraddle Jul 24, 2023 Full Review Jagged Mind (2023) 63% EDIT “It’s not a complicated movie by any means, but it’s one that inspires rich discussion about relationships, abuse, agency, manipulation, and yes, love — or at least a perversion of it. It’s more twisted than it is twisty.” – Autostraddle Jun 16, 2023 Full Review Your Place or Mine (2023) 31% EDIT “Your Place or Mine is bland in a lot of ways, but it’s most flavorless when it comes to Alicia. Giving her a queer perspective wouldn’t have taken anything away from the film; it would have added to it.” – Autostraddle Feb 10, 2023 Full Review Do Revenge (2022) 86% EDIT “The movie offers a terrific playground for Mendes and Hawke to mess around in as these gleefully flawed, cartoonish and yet ultimately dimensional characters.” – Autostraddle Sep 16, 2022 Full Review Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) 86% EDIT “The script is ultimately heavy-handed in its needling of ultra-rich young people, but a solid cast grounds the characters in specifics, breathing life into the noxious dynamics that permeate the crew and unsettle from the start.” – Autostraddle Aug 16, 2022 Full Review Moonshot (2022) 62% EDIT “A pretty bland, pretty by-the-numbers rom-com. And a rom-com set in space simply shouldn’t feel this terrestrial.” – Autostraddle Apr 14, 2022 Full Review Fresh (2022) 82% EDIT “Writer Lauryn Kahn and director Mimi Cave have constructed a playful and captivating horror story bolstered by solid performances that does, at times, feel pretty fresh.” – Autostraddle Mar 10, 2022 Full Review Revolting Rhymes (2016) 87% EDIT “It really is a fun short with a warm relationship between two women at its center that'll make your heart flutter even if they're just supposed to be fairytale "friends."” – Autostraddle Aug 27, 2021 Full Review
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