Maxine (2023)
Allie is a newly out teen who is keeping her girlfriend a secret from her Chinese American family. During her family’s celebration of the Hungry Ghost Festival, Allie meets the ghost of a long lost relative named Maxine, who was queer when she was alive several decades ago. Though they come from different times, they find that they share many feelings about struggling to belong, especially within their own family’s legacy.
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Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.