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  • 2021
  • Wolfe Releasing
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2021
  • Wolfe Releasing
  • 1 h 38 m
Ahead of the Curve

Summary With a fist full of credit cards, a lucky run at the horse track, and chutzpah for days, Franco Stevens launched Curve, the best-selling lesbian magazine ever published. Ahead of the Curve tracks the power of lesbian visibility and community from the early '90s to the present day through the story of Franco's founding of Curve magazine....

Directed By: Jen Rainin, Rivkah Beth Medow

  • 2021
  • Wolfe Releasing
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2021
  • Wolfe Releasing
  • 1 h 38 m

Ahead of the Curve

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary With a fist full of credit cards, a lucky run at the horse track, and chutzpah for days, Franco Stevens launched Curve, the best-selling lesbian magazine ever published. Ahead of the Curve tracks the power of lesbian visibility and community from the early '90s to the present day through the story of Franco's founding of Curve magazine....

Directed By: Jen Rainin, Rivkah Beth Medow

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
62
67% Positive
4 Reviews
33% Mixed
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0% Negative
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70
Jun 1, 2021
While Ahead of the Curve doesn’t offer any solid answers, it does make the case that understanding lesbian history should be a key part in assessing the future.
By Tracy Brown FULL REVIEW
70
May 27, 2021
First-time director Jen Rainin’s portrait of Stevens, Curve‘s achievements and blindspots, lesbian progress during the Clinton era and the uneasiness with the “lesbian” label among many queer women today is accomplished, resonant and deeply moving.
By Inkoo Kang FULL REVIEW
67
Jun 4, 2021
By attempting to capture the universal instead of focusing on the specific, the film feels like a collection of ideas put forth in an amorphous collage.
By Jose Solís FULL REVIEW
63
May 27, 2021
Ahead of the Curve does a decent job of summarizing a forty year blur in gay history and Stevens’ role in it as a spokeswoman for her sexuality and community on TV in the ’90s — “Power Dykes,” on the next “Geraldo!” — a pioneering publisher and a leader in the culture’s breathtaking shift in attitudes on sexuality, marriage and gender identity.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 3, 2021
It’s a valuable portrait of a great risk-taker.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
60
May 27, 2021
The film’s subjects are overwhelmingly earnest, but the movie suffers for its substitution of enterprise over entertainment.
By Teo Bugbee FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Frankly Speaking Films
Release Date May 28, 2021
Duration 1 h 38 m
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Tagline A Glossy Lesbian Revolution
Website https://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo
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Awards

Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Image + Nation Festival Cinema LGBT Montreal Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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