“There are ways to portray a goober who happens to be overweight without resorting to fat-shaming for laughs.”
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"The film harbors no curiosity whatsoever of the man behind the brown skin and turban."
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"Having a woman at the helm cements the feminist chops of The Beguiled; however, people of color are absent from this eerie fable."
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“Rough Night is uneven in more ways than one, displaying a fantastic same-sex relationship in the same breath as it makes fun of fat people.”
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“I can only hope that the Saw franchise will realize how much underrepresented audiences are dying to see themselves up on the silver screen.”
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“Enjoyable enough, but The Foreigner carries a distinctly Beijing sheen at the expense of Vietnamese erasure.”
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“Stronger stops short of authentic casting but manages to present Jeff Bauman’s story with sensitivity and realism.”
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“Women and people of color exist at the margins of Spider-Man: Homecoming, peeking in but never developing corporeal form.”
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“Despite addiction being one of the main themes of the film, The Glass Castle fails to adequately address the issue.”
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“LOEV has its heart in the right place but suffers from uneven storytelling and a lack of female characters, both of which hurt its Mediaversity score.”
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“All Eyez on Me’s important commentary on race gets overshadowed by its technical problems.”
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“The film is frustratingly obvious and pushes the viewer into a passive role. We watch Jackie lay everything bare, leaving no room for personal curiosity.”
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“Damien Chazelle overreaches in La La Land by centering a white man who insinuates that young Black musicians don’t understand the genre their forefathers created.”
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“Any movie where the majority of female characters throw themselves at the male leads is going to score badly on Gender.”
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