“Using an understated but powerful approach, Anatomy of a Fall opens up multiple discussion points regarding gender, sexuality, and disability.”
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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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“With just four characters to home in on, All of Us Strangers eschews breadth in favor of depth.”
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“Women Talking doesn’t stop with what women can do for each other. It also shows what true allyship from men looks like.”
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“Tobias Lindholm renders The Good Nurse with more sensitivity than other titles in the true crime genre.”
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“Mars One naturally works in disabled narratives through several of its key characters.”
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“While race is not overtly addressed in Eternals, neither is the casting colorblind.”
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“CODA clearly trusts its magnetic cast to honestly portray dimensionality within a Deaf family.”
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“The Humans normalizes disability and never flattens it into someone’s sole identity.”
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“The Father presents the rare perspective of someone experiencing memory loss but fails to go beyond the view of a white man with financial means.”
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“Despite its oversimplification of Deaf culture, Sound of Metal generally constructs positive and nuanced characters.”
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“A disabled character on the silver screen who’s not solely defined by their condition is all too rare.”
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“Hollywood frequently pigeonholes filmmakers of color into only telling stories about their own communities. It’s exciting to see Run depart from that harmful trend.”
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“Rather than interrogate disability stereotypes, Chemical Hearts employs them to stunting effect.”
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“Nomadland presents older characters, many living with disabilities, unvarnished but with endless empathy.”
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“Code of the Freaks presents one of the most comprehensive looks at disability in film thus far.”
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“The Peanut Butter Falcon’s lesson in positive masculinity contributes to the ongoing conversation about what it means to be a man in the modern era.”
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“Luce upends the Exceptional Negro trope.”
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“Moonlight Sonata is an affecting work that gives full texture to the meaning of being deaf, hard of hearing, or having loved ones in the community.”
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