“Columbus flies through our metrics on the steam of its fully-realized character development.”
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“If this is the future of media, I think I’m going to like it here.”
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“Dunkirk is a sensory feast but one that leaves me concerned about its palpable nostalgia for an era before women’s liberation and civil rights movements.”
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“LOEV has its heart in the right place but suffers from uneven storytelling and a lack of female characters, both of which hurt its Mediaversity score.”
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“This is a fascinating time for film. Globalization is producing nascent experiments in multicultural filmmaking; some miss the mark while others, such as Bong’s Okja, present true creativity and collaboration.”
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“Kumail Nanjiani, a Pakistani-American from a Muslim family, leads a romantic comedy that has played to sell-out theaters in its first week of previews.”
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“Kapoor & Sons chips away at the tall task of normalizing LGBTQ individuals in Indian cinema.”
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“Highly enjoyable popcorn flick which ticks the box of female empowerment despite struggling to break into truly progressive territory.”
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“Women of color are either sexual objects or played off for laughs. For example, Mantis—found by Ego and raised as his servant and ‘pet’— seems to be written explicitly for the film to indulge in submissive Asian stereotypes.”
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“At some point, we need to stop glorifying the deaths of saintly, self-sacrificial minorities and women, and instead offer them better roles and agency over their own lives.”
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“You will be hard-pressed to find another film that celebrates the vast spectrum of gender and sexual expression in the way KIKI does.”
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“Sophie and the Rising Sun is a wonderfully intersectional film, featuring interracial love and friendships set to the backdrop of WWII and the languid air of the South.”
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“The camera pans across the metropolis, displaying legions of women depicted solely as sex workers or fetishized, Orientalist fantasies.”
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“It’s a relief to watch a silly action movie without worrying about misogyny or cringeworthy racism.”
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“Get Out winks at centuries of painful history and honors it with an absurd, no-bullshit de-pantsing of race in America.”
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