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  • 2021
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2021
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 36 m

Summary After a string of unsuccessful and awkward encounters with women, Ben goes “back on the dick.” Cicada follows Ben, a young bisexual man, as he comes out to the world and develops an intense relationship with Sam, a man of color struggling with deep wounds of his own. As the summer progresses and their intimacy grows, Ben’s past crawls to...

Directed By: Kieran Mulcare

Written By: Sheldon D. Brown

  • 2021
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2021
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 36 m

Cicada

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Summary After a string of unsuccessful and awkward encounters with women, Ben goes “back on the dick.” Cicada follows Ben, a young bisexual man, as he comes out to the world and develops an intense relationship with Sam, a man of color struggling with deep wounds of his own. As the summer progresses and their intimacy grows, Ben’s past crawls to...

Directed By: Kieran Mulcare

Written By: Sheldon D. Brown

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
66
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40% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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40% Mixed
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80
Jan 21, 2022
Though there are some clunking flaws... Cicada has the compact shape of an elegant short story – open-ended, yet not incomplete.
By Donald Clarke FULL REVIEW
80
Jan 20, 2022
Told with tenderness and honesty, Cicada is a treatment of trauma that does not judge or preach or take sides, but, in building to its breathless crescendo, goes to show just how much courage it takes to confront the past in order to look to the future.
By Matthew Anderson FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 4, 2021
The absorbing romantic drama Cicada feels as real as it gets.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW
50
Jan 21, 2022
It struggles to find nuance in its storytelling approach.
By Marina Ashioti FULL REVIEW
40
Oct 29, 2021
Ben and Sam’s blossoming romance does a lot of telling and little showing. While there’s the occasional amusingly idiosyncratic section of dialogue that sounds like a series of stagily poetic non-sequiturs, much of the couple’s bonding feels straightforward and unremarkable.
By Kyle Turner FULL REVIEW

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Production Company rubbertape, Beast of the East Productions
Release Date Oct 29, 2021
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating Unrated
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Website https://strandreleasing.com/films/cicada/
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Awards

Kingston Reelout Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Out Film CT
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Oslo/Fusion International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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