“Get Out winks at centuries of painful history and honors it with an absurd, no-bullshit de-pantsing of race in America.”
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“It’s exciting to see how easily this younger generation is able to dismantle heteronormativity.”
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“The Great Wall is about as literal to the white savior trope as you can get.”
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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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“Wilson’s story is granular, depicting the vicious power that patriarchs can wield as they hurt the women and children in their lives.”
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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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“The film is at its best when depicting the sheer estrangement between generations within the modern Chinese family.”
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“Arrival has a refreshing gender role-reversal.”
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“Captivating, magnetic, eerie, and kinetic”
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“The uncomfortable industry adulation that surrounded Casey Affleck—despite his confirmed abuse against women in reality—outweighs my ability to recommend this film.”
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“Middling film complete with nostalgic 1980’s throwback costume, music, and unfortunately, the racist and male-centric tropes of that decade as well.”
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“Moonlight doesn’t explicitly tackle topics of race. Instead, it focuses on the humanization of Black boys and Black men.”
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“Hidden Figures presents a different angle to what it means to be black in America.”
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“Rogue One won my heart through ethnic diversity; the number of non-white characters in major roles stretches long.”
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“This movie explores identity and what it means to be ethnically one thing, but belonging to a different nationality.”
“The real life stories of Geeta and Babita Phogat are stronger and more feminist than this moralizing product written and directed by four men.”
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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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“A flaming garbage fire to watch.”
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“The real Cosme McMoon was Mexican Irish. In Florence Foster Jenkins, his actor is white.”
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