“No matter how sharply Margaret Qualley plays Blue Moon’s blond bombshell, there’s no fixing a script that spends most of its time objectifying her.”
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“After the Hunt feels outdated in its surface-level commentary on the #MeToo movement.”
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“A Diwali Dilemma grapples with the internal conflict shared by many people of color.”
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“While the visuals lean heavily into traditional gender coding, Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie avoids toxic messages.”
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“To its credit, Adulthood does weave in disability storylines without sensationalizing them.”
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“The cultural references in Doin’ It suffer from oversimplification.”
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“The Sun Rises On Us All demonstrates an intimacy with women’s experiences around healthcare and fertility, with certain moments feeling plucked from my own life.”
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“The women of Meadowlarks are recognizable in so many ways.”
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“Modern Whore challenges the desexualization of disabled people in mainstream narratives.”
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“Weapons squanders its potential by rehashing outdated stereotypes.”
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“The Bad Guys 2 gives a stellar blueprint for how a franchise can tweak older material to suit today’s audiences.”
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“Is it too much to ask for a kids’ movie like Smurfs to skip the value judgments on food and body size?”
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“The diversity in Jurassic World Rebirth feels like more than just box-ticking.”
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“The emotional maturity of all the main characters in Worth the Wait, men and women alike, goes a long way in balancing onscreen gender roles.”
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“For today’s teens and twentysomethings, who find romantic storylines overblown, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is a nice option.”
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“The women of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning are instrumental to saving the world.”
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“Warfare brilliantly recreates the nightmare the SEALs went through, but at the cost of sidelining Iraqis.”
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“Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet loses some of the original’s essence that made it so compelling in the first place. But from an inclusion standpoint, it’s a slam dunk.”
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“There’s an opportunity here to explore the specific struggles of Black women, but Opus doesn’t take the bait.”
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“The Penguin Lessons comes off as well-meaning but wrong-footed.”
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