"Love Lies Bleeding proves that gay women of color—who have both physical strength and emotional intricacies—are to be made visible, worshiped, and understood."
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“Using an understated but powerful approach, Anatomy of a Fall opens up multiple discussion points regarding gender, sexuality, and disability.”
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“Maestro has a straight man playing a queer musician, a non-Hispanic woman playing a Latina, and the internet got mad about a NOSE?!”
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“It’s a joy to watch The Marvels’ superwomen support and empower one another.”
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“Drive-Away Dolls is a great example of what beloved directors can do when they try out new types of characters and identities in their stories.”
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“Whenever two women have a conversation, it’s only ever about Kneecap or its male band members.”
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“Freaky Tales uses a simplistic take on real-world issues that reaches for easy answers.”
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“Argylle hypersexualizes most of its female spies and barely remembers to include characters of color, all of them tokenized.”
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“In The Tiger’s Apprentice, no female characters have their own story arcs, or even dimensionality.”
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“Ostensibly about a deadbeat dad trying to get to know his daughters, it’s the relationships between women in Queens that provide the most satisfying conclusions.”
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“In the Land of Brothers gives insights into the casually cruel treatment of Hazara Afghan refugees in Iran.”
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“Over the course of the film, Brief History of a Family organizes itself within the context of China’s one-child policy.”
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“Aging and disability often go hand in hand, and Josh Margolin easily works that fact into Thelma, leveraging it for power and humor.”
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“Origin’s Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor gives a soul-stirring performance, but she can’t rein in the overstretched film by sheer force of will.”
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“Mean Girls takes a benign but superficial approach to diversity.”
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“It’s disappointing to see the talented actors of color in Poor Things given so little to do.”
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“With just four characters to home in on, All of Us Strangers eschews breadth in favor of depth.”
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“American Fiction’s small inclusion-related missteps undermine its own thesis.”
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“It’s refreshing to see a transmasc actor play a pivotal part of Talk to Me without having their gender identity exploited.”
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“I was uncomfortable watching yet another film about tortured white male genius when the victims of the atrocities glossed over by Oppenheimer had no voice.”
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