“When an 83-year old novel is more feminist than its modern film adaptation, you know there’s something wrong.”
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“Girls Trip puts their money where their mouth, providing work opportunities for actors of color. Of the top-billed 15 characters, 12 go to black actors."
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“Gerwig brings everyone down to their base components: fragility, strength, and the overarching sense that we are all just figuring ourselves out.”
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“Thor: Ragnarok does not pass the Bechdel test, which should be a low bar to clear in a film with two female leads.”
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“Last Flag Flying never condescends to its characters because of their disabilities.”
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“The two leads of Wonderstruck are both deaf, one of whom is portrayed wonderfully by deaf talent Millicent Simmonds.”
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“I can only hope that the Saw franchise will realize how much underrepresented audiences are dying to see themselves up on the silver screen.”
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“Boo 2! plays up Hattie Mae’s speech impediment for shallow laughs, demonstrating just how out of touch Tyler Perry Studios is.”
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“Enjoyable enough, but The Foreigner carries a distinctly Beijing sheen at the expense of Vietnamese erasure.”
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“Women are aggressively objectified for the male gaze, while people of color are simply erased.”
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“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.”
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“Given that the story centers on toy pony princesses with magical abilities, My Little Pony: The Movie contains multitudes to unpack.”
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“This F grade has nothing to do with whitewashing and everything to do with being a walking disaster.”
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“Stronger stops short of authentic casting but manages to present Jeff Bauman’s story with sensitivity and realism.”
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“The only healthy depiction of a complex, romantic relationship in Atomic Blonde takes place between Lorraine and Delphine.”
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“People of color are picked off easily, like a retro horror film where the Black guy gets killed first.”
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“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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“Women and people of color exist at the margins of Spider-Man: Homecoming, peeking in but never developing corporeal form.”
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“Columbus flies through our metrics on the steam of its fully-realized character development.”
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“Despite addiction being one of the main themes of the film, The Glass Castle fails to adequately address the issue.”
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