“Polite Society draws from the personal frustrations and challenges of writer-director Nida Manzoor, who grew up in a Pakistani Muslim family.”
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“Alejandro’s financial stress—and existential dread—in Problemista as he waits to get a visa sponsorship could just as easily have been my own.”
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“While Bottoms features a diverse cast with Black and queer main characters, it stays light on topics of identity.”
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“The Long Game resorts to Hollywood pitfalls of white saviors and respectability politics.”
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“As a Panamanian-Chilean co-production with a Costa Rican filmmaker at the helm, diversity among Latinos organically takes place in Sister and Sister.”
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“Women Talking doesn’t stop with what women can do for each other. It also shows what true allyship from men looks like.”
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“Elvis reinforces the flimsy justifications often given for Presley’s appropriation of Black culture.”
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“Women in Top Gun: Maverick don’t see much development, but written dialogue and camerawork treat them with respect.”
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“The character of Spider is the embodiment of cultural appropriation in Avatar: The Way of Water.”
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“It feels lazy for Tár to use the one wheelchair user as a symbolic shorthand for a fate worse than death.”
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“It’s nice to see a woman in a semi-autobiographical narrative of a male filmmaker who doesn’t appear as just another flat character.”
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“Little Richard: I Am Everything critiques the star’s Christian evangelism, which strikes an unexpected note in these types of biodocs.”
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“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.”
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“Past Lives makes time for the minutiae that define the immigrant experience.”
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“Two women are the voices of reason in a maelstrom of absurdity in The Banshees of Inisherin.”
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“Broker is a movie that distinctly blends Japanese director Kore-eda’s sensibilities with those of Korea.”
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“It’s wonderful to see such breadth of Black identities and skin colors in this Scottish, Glasgow-set story.”
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“Several interviewees in KOKOMO CITY theorize on why Black cis culture holds such deep-rooted tensions with trans women.”
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“It’s rare to see Black Muslim Americans depicted with the understated authenticity seen in To Live and Die and Live.”
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“It’s great to see someone openly queer play a leading role in a popular, mainstream movie like Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.”
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