“Chloé Zhao’s The Rider serves as a testament for why making the extra effort to tell underrepresented stories matters.”
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“The audience sees Tish and Fonny as they see each other: fully realized, at the center of their world, and as people deserving of love.”
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“Roma headlines an Indigenous Oaxacan woman who pierces the idea of a nebulous Latino or Hispanic identity.”
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“More than simply highlighting prejudice, The Hate U Give peels back another layer and examines the issues that can divide the Black community from within.”
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“It’s life-affirming to watch a trans woman direct a movie about whatever the hell she wants.”
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“For those who say To All the Boys is trodden territory, I ask: Trodden territory for whom?”
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“Usually, the missing or abducted girl is a flat character who gets just a handful of lines, at best. Thankfully, Searching has other ideas.”
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“Radicalizing Kwame Ture more than he was, just to create a false equivalence to the KKK, is troublesome.”
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“A Wrinkle in Time is more than just a movie.”
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“As a rare leading man who isn’t defined by toxic masculinity, T’Challa is surrounded by strong women whose feminine power fortifies, rather than antagonizes, his own masculinity.”
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“Where Rose has paved the way, other female characters of color need to follow.”
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“Mudbound ditches the simplistic notion that white nationalism only hurts black people, arguing instead that intolerance is a poison that sickens everything around it.”
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“Girls Trip puts their money where their mouth, providing work opportunities for actors of color. Of the top-billed 15 characters, 12 go to black actors."
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“Gerwig brings everyone down to their base components: fragility, strength, and the overarching sense that we are all just figuring ourselves out.”
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“The only healthy depiction of a complex, romantic relationship in Atomic Blonde takes place between Lorraine and Delphine.”
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“Columbus flies through our metrics on the steam of its fully-realized character development.”
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“If this is the future of media, I think I’m going to like it here.”
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“Kumail Nanjiani, a Pakistani-American from a Muslim family, leads a romantic comedy that has played to sell-out theaters in its first week of previews.”
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“Arrival has a refreshing gender role-reversal.”
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“Captivating, magnetic, eerie, and kinetic”
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