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“The Serpent’s Skin”

If “Ginger Snaps” was the sapphic horror awakening of the early 2000s, “The Serpent’s Skin” feels like its modern, Gen-Z descendant.

The director of “Stranger by the Lake” and “Staying Vertical” reunites with cinematographer Claire Mathon (“Portrait of a Lady on Fire”) for a bleakly funny tragicomedy about the unavoidability of our desires and their destructive power. Most importantly, Tierney found two perfect stars in Hudson Williams and Connor Storie, who are individually great — Williams as the submissive and socially awkward Shane, Storie as the dominant and hot-headed Ilya — and together have the type of electric onscreen chemistry that has made thousands of viewers fall in love with their characters almost as hard as they fall for each other.

In a year filled with movies where queer people were acting horribly, none were quite as detestable, and also scarily recognizable, as the gays in “Twinless.” —WC

“Viet and Nam”

It’s reductive and even unhelpful to compare the work of one contemporary South Asian filmmaker to another, but Vietnamese auteur on the rise Trương Minh Quý brings to mind Thai queer director Apichatpong Weerasethakul in the best possible ways with his gorgeously composed third feature, “Viet and Nam.” Locating gay desire in the only furtive corners where it can bloom in a hegemonic civilization, “Viet and Nam” is in part the story of two male coal miners who fall in love among the soot and ruins (and with eroticism boiling over in those scenes despite the movie’s hushed, at times statically arranged shots).

The being he now calls his friend is a spirit that has taken his form — with Yoshiki’s voice, too — and one that will kill him if he tells anyone the truth. The revelation sends Yoshiki into a spiral of grief and guilt, but he also can’t bear the thought of losing Hikaru even more than he already has. The show is very funny, with some scene-stealing cameos from stars like Charli XCX or Bowen Yang, but at its heart is a tale of someone coming into his own and learning to let go of the expectations and walls he’s put around himself.

You know it’s unlikely to end well for these two, but it was such a lovely thing at that start. From awards honorees defending trans people at the podium to musical acts designing their live performances as tributes to their gay and genderqueer fans, entertainers of all kinds came together to remind audiences that Hollywood is still mostly run by allies.

However well-intentioned, that political contrast made LGBTQ representation on screen feel more dire than celebratory.

—WC

“RuPaul’s Drag Race”

Seventeen seasons into making her-story, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” spent 2025 doing what it does best: turning queer joy into a global spectator sport. The documentary “Come See in the Good Light” remembered poet Andrea Gibson and gave their wife, Megan Falley, a platform to reflect on the late artist’s life and the fleeting power of true love.

We live in a time restrained by hesitation but spurred on by the recent memory of limitless possibility.

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