“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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“The character of Spider is the embodiment of cultural appropriation in Avatar: The Way of Water.”
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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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“Alana is constantly hit on, ogled at, or subjected to predatory advances.”
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“Samira Wiley and Laura Harrier’s undisclosed roles were cut from Finch, leaving a cast that’s entirely white.”
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“The Guilty reinforces the false belief that people with mental health conditions are ‘dangerous to society.’”
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“Mank jubilantly leans into the sexism and racism of pre-war Hollywood.”
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“I Still Believe’s attempt to inspire comes at the expense of the woman it means to honor.”
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“To limit the narrative of World War II to a white, straight, American male perspective willfully skews history.”
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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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“Simply having people of color on screen does not translate into good representation.”
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“Shaft completely misinterprets Blackness.”
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“Vice comes off as a boys’ club that has its heart in the right place but ultimately succumbs to its own self-importance.”
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“Robin Hood plays into persistent European tropes that mischaracterize all Arabs as Moors and all Moors as Black.”
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“The U.S. military is much more diverse than Hunter Killer suggests.”
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“The Hitman’s Bodyguard seems to think that by making Hayek homicidal and capable of defending herself, that she’s somehow empowered. She isn’t.”
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“The Mummy is a terrible movie in a multitude of ways.”
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“If you’re at all squeamish about the casual violation of women, both onscreen or narratively, then skip this film.”
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“Darkest Hour cheerily pads its film with a white cast, setting aside just one speaking role for a non-white actor.”
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