“The Fall Guy easily avoids toxic tropes or obvious stereotypes.”
Read More“Monkey Man uses tropes about women, but its inclusion of marginalized hijras works brilliantly.”
Read More“Where Dune: Part Two fails isn’t in its portrayal of a White Savior—it’s how it underwrites the Fremen.”
Read More“Using an understated but powerful approach, Anatomy of a Fall opens up multiple discussion points regarding gender, sexuality, and disability.”
Read More“It’s a joy to watch The Marvels’ superwomen support and empower one another.”
Read More“Drive-Away Dolls is a great example of what beloved directors can do when they try out new types of characters and identities in their stories.”
Read More“In The Tiger’s Apprentice, no female characters have their own story arcs, or even dimensionality.”
Read More“In the Land of Brothers gives insights into the casually cruel treatment of Hazara Afghan refugees in Iran.”
Read More“Over the course of the film, Brief History of a Family organizes itself within the context of China’s one-child policy.”
Read More“Aging and disability often go hand in hand, and Josh Margolin easily works that fact into Thelma, leveraging it for power and humor.”
Read More“Mean Girls takes a benign but superficial approach to diversity.”
Read More“It’s disappointing to see the talented actors of color in Poor Things given so little to do.”
Read More“American Fiction’s small inclusion-related missteps undermine its own thesis.”
Read More“It’s refreshing to see a transmasc actor play a pivotal part of Talk to Me without having their gender identity exploited.”
Read More“Saltburn toes the blurred line between a positive reclamation of the ‘evil gays’ trend and a negative stereotype.”
Read More“Omoiyari: A Song Film by Kishi Bashi delves into Japanese American history and identity, but at times its discussions on race feel underdeveloped.”
Read More“Thrilling, dark, and visibly diverse, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes makes for an enjoyable update to the blockbuster trilogy.”
Read More“Characters in The Holdovers have an assortment of disabilities—some of them normalized, but some that border on cliché.”
Read More“Killers of the Flower Moon stakes its curiosity in the sins of white men rather than in the rich lives and contributions of Native peoples.”
Read More“Though it shares a perspective that’s sorely underrepresented in film, Bye Bye Tiberias stands too close to its subjects.”
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