“Last Flag Flying never condescends to its characters because of their disabilities.”
Read More
“The two leads of Wonderstruck are both deaf, one of whom is portrayed wonderfully by deaf talent Millicent Simmonds.”
Read More
“I can only hope that the Saw franchise will realize how much underrepresented audiences are dying to see themselves up on the silver screen.”
Read More
“Boo 2! plays up Hattie Mae’s speech impediment for shallow laughs, demonstrating just how out of touch Tyler Perry Studios is.”
Read More
“Enjoyable enough, but The Foreigner carries a distinctly Beijing sheen at the expense of Vietnamese erasure.”
Read More
“Women are aggressively objectified for the male gaze, while people of color are simply erased.”
Read More
“Power Rangers exudes a deep understanding that inclusion is more than just a checklist. This is no more apparent than when they mix different identities within the same character.”
Read More
“Given that the story centers on toy pony princesses with magical abilities, My Little Pony: The Movie contains multitudes to unpack.”
Read More
“This F grade has nothing to do with whitewashing and everything to do with being a walking disaster.”
Read More
“Stronger stops short of authentic casting but manages to present Jeff Bauman’s story with sensitivity and realism.”
Read More
“The only healthy depiction of a complex, romantic relationship in Atomic Blonde takes place between Lorraine and Delphine.”
Read More
“People of color are picked off easily, like a retro horror film where the Black guy gets killed first.”
Read More
“American Assassin uses Islam as a convenient shorthand for terrorism and evil, yet it’s conspicuously absent in ‘good’ characters from Iran.”
Read More
“Women and people of color exist at the margins of Spider-Man: Homecoming, peeking in but never developing corporeal form.”
Read More
“Columbus flies through our metrics on the steam of its fully-realized character development.”
Read More
“Despite addiction being one of the main themes of the film, The Glass Castle fails to adequately address the issue.”
Read More
“If this is the future of media, I think I’m going to like it here.”
Read More
“Dunkirk is a sensory feast with palpable nostalgia for an era before women’s liberation and civil rights movements.”
Read More
“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.”
Read More
“Bong Joon Ho’s Okja misses the mark in some ways, but it does present creativity and global collaboration.”
Read More