“Women and Black characters are even more diminished in The Irishman than in Martin Scorsese’s previous gangster films.”
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“Hustlers hits a home run with its wider allegory to capitalism in America.”
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“Norton humanizes Tourette Syndrome in Motherless Brooklyn but still reinforces media tropes about the condition.”
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“Clemency ‘shows’ rather then ‘tells’ its inclusive tenets.”
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“The entire premise of Jexi, that a broken man needs to be fixed by a woman, has no place in modern-day filmmaking.”
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“Joker suggests that mental health issues require government funding—a narrative that would actually be progressive, if the film stopped there.”
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“It: Chapter Two fails to treat trauma with any nuance or care, leaving its victimized characters high and dry.”
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“Knives Out weaves in some effective commentary on immigration.”
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“Many films set abroad borrow ‘exotic’ backdrops and locals to make their lead characters more interesting. To the Ends of the Earth avoids all that.”
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“Simply having people of color on screen does not translate into good representation.”
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“Ruby must deal with the stigma of being a Black woman in the VERY white Irish mob. But like so many topics in The Kitchen, nothing ever comes to fruition.”
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“Based on true stories of workplace harassment, the gender-swapped tragicomedy Step Into My Office highlights the absurdity of what women regularly face.”
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“Lose yourself in this nostalgic summer retrospective, and maybe learn a thing or two about the modern history of Taiwan.”
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“Non-bros need not apply.”
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“Luce upends the Exceptional Negro trope.”
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“‘Not ghosts but human beings,’ reads a slogan for International Albinism Awareness Day, so it’s ironic that the sole person with albinism in Scary Stories shows up as a ghost.”
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“The portrayal of Bruce Lee and the othering of Mexicans has the appearance of Tarantino punching down for the sake of cheap humor.”
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“Yellow Rose deftly parallels two seemingly opposing groups: the American cowboy and the undocumented immigrant.”
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“I would love to see MJ and Peter’s classmates of color get a little more meat to their stories.”
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“Late Night spins a great message about racial diversity, but stops short at embodying it.”
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