Review of Please Baby Please (2022) by Lena Wilson for TheWrap — 29 Oct 2022

Please Baby Please may pay homage to queer aesthetics, but it fails to make any coherent points about gender or sexuality.

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This review of Please Baby Please (2022) was written by Lena Wilson and published by TheWrap on 29 Oct 2022.

Please Baby Please has generally received mixed reviews.

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