They don’t get much more groundbreaking than Cheryl Dunye’s landmark of queer cinema.

It gives us something we don't see much of in film -- young black women claiming their space and sharing it with the rest of us.

The Watermelon Woman is quite smart, remarkably sophisticated filmmaking for a first-time director.

A quarter of a century later, The Watermelon Woman suggests that ’90s indie is a genre unto itself. ... For those who came of age as cineastes during that era, it’s a nostalgic nod to that gritty aesthetic and an important milestone in New Queer Cinema.