“Monkey Man uses tropes about women, but its inclusion of marginalized hijras works brilliantly.”
Read More"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."
Read More“Using an understated but powerful approach, Anatomy of a Fall opens up multiple discussion points regarding gender, sexuality, and disability.”
Read More“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.”
Read More“Mean Girls takes a benign but superficial approach to diversity.”
Read More“It’s disappointing to see the talented actors of color in Poor Things given so little to do.”
Read More“With just four characters to home in on, All of Us Strangers eschews breadth in favor of depth.”
Read More“It’s refreshing to see a transmasc actor play a pivotal part of Talk to Me without having their gender identity exploited.”
Read More“Rustin doesn’t go far enough to say anything of substance.”
Read More“Saltburn toes the blurred line between a positive reclamation of the ‘evil gays’ trend and a negative stereotype.”
Read More“Thrilling, dark, and visibly diverse, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes makes for an enjoyable update to the blockbuster trilogy.”
Read More“Red, White & Royal Blue continues a bias for a certain type of queer presentation.”
Read More“Shortcomings doesn’t try to force any answers on us, acknowledging the thorniness of honest, unfiltered conversations.”
Read More“Asian women get to be sexy, horny, and messy in Joy Ride, rather than exotified or leered at through a white male gaze.”
Read More“Given the pressing need for a wider range of movies that happen to feature LGBTQ relationships, The Mattachine Family should be embraced.”
Read More“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.”
Read More“While Bottoms features a diverse cast with Black and queer main characters, it stays light on topics of identity.”
Read More“Women Talking doesn’t stop with what women can do for each other. It also shows what true allyship from men looks like.”
Read More“It feels lazy for Tár to use the one wheelchair user as a symbolic shorthand for a fate worse than death.”
Read More“Several interviewees in KOKOMO CITY theorize on why Black cis culture holds such deep-rooted tensions with trans women.”
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