99% Rotten Tomatoes

It’s explicit in its depiction of a very British BDSM relationship between the quiet and submissive Colin (Harry Melling) and his enigmatic, leather-clad dom, Ray (Alexander Skarsgård, The Northman). Released in the U.S. by A24 but produced for the BBC, Pillion feels like a throwback to the golden era of British queer cinema, most especially to 1985’s My Beautiful Laundrette and its depiction of a taboo-busting relationship in working-class England.

“Even the most Netflix-gagged romcom fan will realize that Lighton’s film is exactly the shot in the arm the genre needed. May we all live so happily ever after”-The Globe & Mail