In our latest thorough update to the list, we added titles like the documentary Welcome to Chechnya, about LGBTQ+ activists risking their lives for the cause in Russia Certified Fresh comedy Shiva, Baby and Netflix’s The Old Guard, a rare movie about super beings that showed a same-sex relationship between two of its heroes. When revising this list in further recent updates, we’ve also looked to include more stories from outside of the U.S., and we’re excited for people to discover films like Taboo (Gohatto), a gay love story set during the waning years of the samurai era The Wound (Inxeba), centered around three men during a tribal initiation ceremony in Africa and Australian film 52 Tuesdays, about the relationship between a daughter and her mother who is undergoing a gender transition. To be considered for the list, a movie had to prominently feature gay, lesbian, trans, or queer characters concern itself centrally with LGBTQ+ themes present its LGBTQ+ characters in a fair and realistic light and/or be seen as a touchpoint in the evolution of queer cinema. The final list was culled from a longlist of hundreds, after which the films were ranked according to the Adjusted Tomatometer, which acts as a kind of inflation adjustment, taking into consideration the Tomatometer score, as well as the number of reviews a film received relative to the average number of reviews for films released that same year.