American Assassin

American Assassin uses Islam as a convenient shorthand for terrorism and evil, yet it’s conspicuously absent in ‘good’ characters from Iran.”

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Grade: FLi
Dunkirk

Dunkirk is a sensory feast with palpable nostalgia for an era before women’s liberation and civil rights movements.”

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Grade: DLi
LOEV

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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Okja

“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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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

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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Grade: DLi