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Saturday Church

2017

Damon Cardasis

Margot Bingham, Regina Taylor, Marquis Rodriguez, Evander Duck Jr. ...

5.8

55

Drama. Fantasy. Musical A 14 year old boy, struggling with gender identity and religion, begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city and find his passion in the process.

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Sweet and soulful (...) It escapes into interior-monologue numbers and expressive dance breaks to mark out the exploration of sexuality and gender identity of a Bronx teenager"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"As vibrant as it is vital (...) [It] should delight LGBT audiences (...) Heartbreaking"	POS
United States	Ben Sachs Chicago Reader	"The songs aren't very good and the acting sometimes borders on camp, but there's no denying his ambition or his concern for homeless youth"	NEU
United States	Jude Dry IndieWire	"Cardasis handles Ulysses with so much care throughout the film that 'Saturday Church' will play like a warm hug to any young person questioning gender identity."	POS
United States	Diego Semerene Slant	"It doesn't help that whenever the film's characters aren't singing less-than-inspired songs, they're trading clichés (...) It's all very hokey, if not campy (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Dan Callahan The Wrap	"It feels as if major scenes and plot points have been cut (...) Cardasis proves that he has some talent for both objectivity and subjectivity"	NEU

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