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May December

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Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past. From TMDB

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  • Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.comBluesky · Jun 1, 2024

    Run, do not walk, to see Godzilla Minus one. I had this film ranked with The Zone of Interest and May December and Skinamarink on my year-end list. Astonishing movie.

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  • Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 6, 2023

    I reviewed MAY DECEMBER, a rancid psychosexual masterpiece which made my skin crawl off my body and flee into the wilderness. Absolutely incredible film. www.patreon.com/posts/941611...

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  • Jared Collier @jaredcollier.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 2, 2025

    Scored this super-cool promo shirt for the Todd Haynes film May December (2023) ❤️ Hoping Criterion releases a disc of it Have a great Sunday! (also, rooting for Demi tonight 🤞)

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  • Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 7, 2023

    I was honored to serve as an AFI judge this year, and I think we came up with a really strong list--I voted for many of these and can stand behind all of them. I'm particularly thrilled that one of the ten spots went to MAY DECEMBER, a movie that deserves to be in the mix all the way.

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  • Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 1, 2024

    I truly don’t know how to be cynical as a film lover when. Zone of interest! Anatomy of a fall! May December! The Barbie movie! All came out in a year!!! Are movies always this good

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  • mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.comBluesky · Nov 29, 2023

    the newest challenge SWEEPING the internet....can you see todd haynes' truly excellent new film in theaters before the end of the month?? they're calling it "May December November"

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  • Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 30, 2023

    I'm planning to spend the next month or so explaining to people that Todd Haynes' great movie May December is not "camp" and that if we're flinging that word around that way, it has become so hollowed out that it's time to let it rest alongside Susan Sontag.

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  • Netscape @netscape.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 15, 2026

    Watched May December last night. Goated movie but not a great Valentine’s Day movie pick

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  • Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 8, 2024

    rewatched MAY DECEMBER tonight and feel like I have emotional cancer now. perfect movie

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  • Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 30, 2023

    These New York Critics Circle winners are a strong and deserving lot; they range from a terrific left-field, handicapper-baffling choice (Rogowski) to a wholly merited push forward for a great movie (May December) to a preview of the showdown that will define much of the season (Film/Director). >

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  • Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 6, 2023

    Godzilla Minus One, Napoleon, May December, The Boy and the Heron, Poor Creatures -- what a couple of months for film, man!

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  • DJ Boozy Brunch @griph.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 31, 2025

    Todd Haynes mentoring Charles Melton in the mystic arts on the set of May December. All arcane magic in that movie was entirely real, no CGI, no special effects.

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  • DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2023

    That movie MAY DECEMBER you keep hearing about how good it is? It’s on Netflix right now and we just watched it and it *is* that good

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  • Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 6, 2023

    May December completely rewards a rewatch. I just noticed the detail that the pet shop owner who acts deeply uncomfortable discussing the scandal has in easy reach the time he got on the front page of the newspaper about it in a protective plastic sheath. Just an unbelievably vicious movie.

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  • Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2026

    so it's a film starring Willem Dafoe as a poet in the Village rediscovered by a group of naive romantics who act like the cast of 'Metropolitan' written by the woman who wrote 'May December' in other words a film made specifically for me, thank you, that's so kind www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI_7...

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  • Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.comBluesky · Nov 29, 2023

    MAY DECEMBER is not just a baseball movie it’s an MN Twins baseball movie!

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  • DJ Boozy Brunch @griph.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 27, 2023

    going to listen to the soundtrack for Todd Haynes' "May December" before seeing it and accidentally spoiling the movie for myself because one of the tracks is called "Qui-Gon Jinn's Funeral"

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  • christina @formeresq.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 20, 2023

    macron banning the film May-December in france so he doesnt have to think too hard

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  • Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2025

    My deranged billionaire project would be to bring back the Marvel Movie Specials but for movies like May December (2023).

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  • American Cinematheque @amcinematheque.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 12, 2026

    Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Samy Burch (MAY DECEMBER) penned the script for the highly-anticipated COYOTE VS. ACME film – which at one point was set to be “destroyed”‼️ Hear Burch talk about the COYOTE funeral screening + more on tomorrow’s episode of The American Cinematheque Podcast 🎙️💛

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  • JJ @jjdotbiz.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 20, 2023

    If Netflix knew anything about selling a fucking movie they’d be hauling ass to get May December in front of my damn eyes.

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  • Rockwell McCloud @rockwellmccloud.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 17, 2026

    Mother, mother, mother, mother, mother... Seriously, she needs to do another May-December romance movie, where she seduces college boys while she wears this.

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  • Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 29, 2023

    The third & penultimate round of Slate Movie Club concludes w/ @markharris.bsky.social on May December, Todd Haynes' dark comedy--or is it a melodrama? A satire? That genre ambiguity, & Haynes' recycling of old forms as a principle of queer artmaking, is part of the point. slate.com/culture/2023...

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  • Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 28, 2023

    Slate Movie Club, Part 12: I write about my favorite movie of 2023, May December. And about a very strange and very apt-for-this-moment trend in movie endings. AND about a brutal review of The Zone of Interest! slate.com/culture/2023...

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  • Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 1, 2023

    Todd Haynes’ May December is now on Netflix. There’s a reason it won two awards from the NYFCC yesterday - it’s a fabulous movie; fascinating, sad, and occasionally hilarious. Don’t let it vanish into the black hole of streaming.

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  • 101iight @101light.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 18, 2024

    Rewatching May December this gag of a movie…….

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  • A.A. Dowd @aadowd.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 13, 2023

    Kind of blown away by MAY DECEMBER, which has the faint veneer of movie-of-the-week camp but also the dramatic complexity of, like, vintage Egoyan.

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  • Felix 🐀✨ @ratstar.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 20, 2025

    Got out to see After The Hunt tonight. Drama more in line with Guadagnino’s earlier films. Also reminds me of Tár and May December a bit in its exploration of cancel culture and power dynamics. Roberts and Edibiri are fantastic.

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  • Autogyniphiles Anonymous @autoanon.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 11, 2024

    First, Mary Kay Letourneau, former teacher and a major inspiration for the movie May-December

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  • David Rooney @david-rooney.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 9, 2025

    Jay Duplass' THE BALTIMORONS, premiering at #SXSW2025, is a stealth charmer, folding a Christmas Eve all-night odyssey with an AFTER HOURS vibe into a gentle May-December romance. Lovely stuff, with disarming work from leads Michael Strassner and Liz Larsen. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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  • Locktober Rust @ascannerburkely.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 23, 2024

    "May December" is a film about how if you're a "December" person then you "may" do whatever you want and it's fine. You may do that.

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  • Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 13, 2024

    MAY DECEMBER: A perverse, gripping film that resists easy categorization. It employs diamond-sharp formalism and performance to make an already disturbing story into something even darker and sadder and stranger. When you laugh, you may not be able to say quite why. I loved this so much.

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  • LeesahSea @leesahsea.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 6, 2023

    Now Watching 📽️ - May December (2023) Dir. Todd Haynes

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  • Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2023

    Review of May December: great performances all round and Todd Haynes on blistering form boxd.it/5hc1B5

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  • Joe @joelastname.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 12, 2026

    wait a second ... the writer of May December, the movie that I humorously likened to Looney Tunes on Letterboxd, went on to write a Road Runner movie? this is amazing

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  • Jason Takes Man-Adams @jamnpp.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 9, 2023

    For Mashable I did what had to be done and compared Todd Haynes' fabulous MAY DECEMBER with the 2000 TV movie ALL-AMERICAN GIRL: THE MARY KAY LETOURNEAU STORY mashable.com/article/may-...

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  • raisin bird @bryanthomasdaly.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 24, 2025

    tom remembered the title of the movie May December as Winter’s Girl, Summer’s Boy

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  • Jon Pennington @jonpennington.bsky.socialBluesky · May 2, 2024

    Don’t know but Joseph Schmitz’s sister is Mary Kay LeTourneau, the teacher who hooked up with & married her teenage student. His sister is the inspiration for the latest Todd Haynes movie, May December.

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  • DJ Boozy Brunch @griph.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 4, 2024

    what's everyone most looking forward to in the MDCU (May December Cinematic Universe)? I think the throwback 90s indie-style film about Georgie and the romcom about Honor's college internship will be good but really can't wait to see the girlboss movie about Gracie's cake business taking off

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  • Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 21, 2023

    Me watching Holdovers, then looking at the reviews: oh how delightful that we all enjoyed this, a good experience made better by the sharing Me watching May December, then looking at the reviews: what movie did you deranged maniacs watch, that was nonsense, you have neither judgment nor taste

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  • Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2023

    I fear May December is developing a chronic case of "Irishman" Syndrome (great movie that will be permanently debased by its association with the Netflix marketing machine)

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  • DJ Boozy Brunch @griph.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 18, 2023

    May December was so good and extremely a going to see it in the theater movie because the answer to "holy shit am I supposed to be laughing at this??" is "yes" every single time

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  • Emily Yoshida @emilyyoshida.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 14, 2023

    Haven’t been truly giddy in anticipation of a film as I am for MAY DECEMBER for a while

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  • American Cinematheque @amcinematheque.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 14, 2026

    You gotta defend your middle school celebrity crushes no matter what! 😍😆 Screenwriter Samy Burch (COYOTE VS. ACME, MAY DECEMBER) wants justice for Dave Foley in THE WRONG GUY (1997). See where the dark comedy ends up in The Samy Burch Film Festival – full episode out now at www.acpodcast.com 💛

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  • Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.socialBluesky · May 3, 2026

    If Hollywood really wants to make money, they'll put Ryan Gosling and Meryl Streep in a sci-fi film with a May-December romance and a Jackson 5 song on the soundtrack.

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  • Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 3, 2025

    Watching May December and it's so great. I love any movie where Julianne Moore is a wretched bitch (see also: Map to the Stars)

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  • 🎃 Mr Too Damn Boo-no 👻 @bergoesbueno.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 31, 2023

    Now watching May December, a movie with absolutely no discourse surrounding it

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  • FatGayFriend @fatgayfriend.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 17, 2023

    So my festive time off film catch up / hole filling list: Triangle of Sadness May December Oppenheimer Passages Past Lives Next Exit Scrapper Men Emily the Criminal Tár Misery Saint Maud True Romance

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  • Tosh H. Cameron @toshfresh.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 11, 2023

    Both may December and tar feel like they are building up to a violent climax but then they subvert and have an anti climax. May December especially when it turns out Portman is staring in a shity exploitive  lifetime movie

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  • JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 4, 2023

    I saw lots of excellent films in October, including several at the London film fest. Here are my Top 5 First Views. ALL OF US STRANGERS (Andrew Haigh); MAY DECEMBER (Todd Haynes); KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (Martin Scorsese); PRISCILLA (Sofia Coppola); THE KILLERS (Don Siegel, 1964).

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  • Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - I should be writing! @cathypegau.bsky.socialBluesky · May 28, 2024

    I have a historical May-December Sapphic romance in mind between an older former silent film star trying to make a come back in the 1940s and a woman screenwriter trying to make it in Hollywood. Of course it is occupying my brain while I try to work on the contracted WIP.

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  • Abigail Johnson @abigailbutblue.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 13, 2024

    I'm embarrassed by how late I saw May December (botched international release and life) but I'm sick about it. I'm absolutely sick about that film.

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  • Corey Atad @coreyatad.comBluesky · Dec 22, 2023

    someone wrote this incredible comment on the latest Slate Movie Club post, and i had to share it: "So far, family members have seen The Holdovers (ok), Maestro (pointless and boring), and May-December (ditto). The only movie I'm looking forward to seeing is Boys In the Boat."

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  • Noel Dávila @noeldavila.netBluesky · Dec 22, 2023

    Watching “May December” (2023). 🎥 🎞️ filmsky

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  • Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 20, 2023

    And Todd Haynes' MAY DECEMBER, a scalding psychosexual horror show and my favorite movie of the year www.patreon.com/posts/in-fle...

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  • barroo @averycutedog.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 18, 2023

    this month on our podcast: MAY DECEMBER and MIKEY & NICKY. the most exciting month in movies for film critter fans. check it out patreon.com/filmcritters

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  • LC von Hessen 𓆙 💀 @lcvonhessen.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 12, 2023

    Can't help thinking about how in May December *spoilers* the actress's increasingly dubious to outright unethical behavior is all in service of an intensive character study for a prestige independent film. Then we finally see the film shoot and it's basically Skinemax-tier MILF porn

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  • Alex Marcus @alexmarcus.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2023

    May December is one of those “this movie is so good that it retroactively makes me like other movies less” type movies. Highly recommend! boxd.it/5gZ0OL

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  • Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 1, 2023

    Todd Haynes’ thrillingly discombobulating MAY DECEMBER hits Netflix today. It’s one of my very favorite films of the year.

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  • Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 30, 2026

    Really incredible film. I need to read some of his interviews and think on this to understand some of the ambiguities. But it was amazing. I also find that Haynes gets remarkably subtle physical performances from his actors. Moore in this. Melton in May December.

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Natalie Portman
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