Poreless
2025 · 13m · USA
Directed by Harris Doran
Genres: comedy, LGBTQ+, satire
Tones: darkly comic, humorous, theatrical
A tongue-in-cheek satire on beauty trends and internet culture.
Picked by Felix
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Poreless gets the subversive assignment because it actually *commits* to the bit—a satire on beauty culture that doesn't wink at the audience expecting applause, but goes theatrical and unhinged enough to make the premise genuinely strange rather than just well-observed.
The film sits in that familiar LGBTQ+ comedy lineage, but the execution feels slight; there's theatrical energy without the formal precision that would elevate satire into something that lands differently on a second viewing.
There's a moment where the theatrical exaggeration tips from commentary into something almost uncomfortable—that tonal choice, whether deliberate or discovered in edit, is what keeps this from being another Instagram-culture riff.