“Joker: Folie à Deux has the same issues as its predecessor, proving that, like Arthur, the filmmakers haven’t grown or changed.”
Read More“I was uncomfortable watching yet another film about tortured white male genius when the victims of the atrocities glossed over by Oppenheimer had no voice.”
Read More“The character of Spider is the embodiment of cultural appropriation in Avatar: The Way of Water.”
Read More“Half a million French colonial troops including West Africans, Moroccans, Algerians, and Indochinese saw combat during World War I, many of them at the Western Front.”
Read More“Alana is constantly hit on, ogled at, or subjected to predatory advances.”
Read More“Samira Wiley and Laura Harrier’s undisclosed roles were cut from Finch, leaving a cast that’s entirely white.”
Read More“The Guilty reinforces the false belief that people with mental health conditions are ‘dangerous to society.’”
Read More“Mank jubilantly leans into the sexism and racism of pre-war Hollywood.”
Read More“I Still Believe’s attempt to inspire comes at the expense of the woman it means to honor.”
Read More“To limit the narrative of World War II to a white, straight, American male perspective willfully skews history.”
Read More“Joker suggests that mental health issues require government funding—a narrative that would actually be progressive, if the film stopped there.”
Read More“It: Chapter Two fails to treat trauma with any nuance or care, leaving its victimized characters high and dry.”
Read More“Simply having people of color on screen does not translate into good representation.”
Read More“Shaft completely misinterprets Blackness.”
Read More“Vice comes off as a boys’ club that has its heart in the right place but ultimately succumbs to its own self-importance.”
Read More“Robin Hood plays into persistent European tropes that mischaracterize all Arabs as Moors and all Moors as Black.”
Read More“The U.S. military is much more diverse than Hunter Killer suggests.”
Read More“The Hitman’s Bodyguard seems to think that by making Hayek homicidal and capable of defending herself, that she’s somehow empowered. She isn’t.”
Read More“The Mummy is a terrible movie in a multitude of ways.”
Read More“If you’re at all squeamish about the casual violation of women, both onscreen or narratively, then skip this film.”
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