Film Reviews

“Maestro has a straight man playing a queer musician, a non-Hispanic woman playing a Latina, and the internet got mad about a NOSE?!”

“My burning question going into Fast X was ‘Would there be #JusticeForHan?’”

“American Underdog pines for a fantasy where women, Black men, and a blind kid fawn over a white male Christian ‘underdog.’”

“Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley had every opportunity to portray carnivals as diverse places with people from all walks of life.”

“Annette may be named for one of its female characters, but make no mistake: The story belongs to her father.”

“Women and Black characters are even more diminished in The Irishman than in Martin Scorsese’s previous gangster films.”

“The entire premise of Jexi, that a broken man needs to be fixed by a woman, has no place in modern-day filmmaking.”

“Non-bros need not apply.”

“Singer has been repeatedly accused of sexual assault against underage boys, leading to a thick cloud of unease that hangs over Bohemian Rhapsody.”

“Green Book stuns with its gleeful swan dive into gender roles, complete with petite women stuffed into hourglass corsets and a leading lady we never see outside the kitchen.”

“Do we really need another Victorian-era tale with colonialist overtones that does nothing different, nor particularly well?”

“I’m not quite sure if A Star is Born is supposed to be a tragic love story or an examination of an abusive relationship.”

“The only fully non-white character is Dr. Wu, who falls straight into the Asian American stereotype as a deferential doctor-scientist.”

“The character deaths in Solo: A Star Wars Story are unearned and disproportionately affect women.”

“If there’s one thing you can count on in a Tyler Perry film, it’s that a woman’s husband will run around on her with another man.”