“It’s alarming that millions of young men are watching—and internalizing—this display of toxic masculinity.”
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“Where Rose has paved the way, other female characters of color need to follow.”
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“There are ways to portray a goober who happens to be overweight without resorting to fat-shaming for laughs.”
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“Mudbound ditches the simplistic notion that white nationalism only hurts black people, arguing instead that intolerance is a poison that sickens everything around it.”
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"The film harbors no curiosity whatsoever of the man behind the brown skin and turban."
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"Having a woman at the helm cements the feminist chops of The Beguiled; however, people of color are absent from this eerie fable."
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“Coco may very well be my favorite Pixar film to date. But a film that doesn’t designate the mere seconds it takes for two women to exchange words will always have room for growth in terms of inclusion.”
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“Rough Night is uneven in more ways than one, displaying a fantastic same-sex relationship in the same breath as it makes fun of fat people.”
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“In Three Billboards, Black and Latino characters come to the rescue of white protagonists yet enjoy no character development of their own.”
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“Women speak for less than 4 minutes in a film that runs 2 hours and 6 minutes long.”
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“While Wonder does generally reflect its diverse setting of New York City, leading roles remain exclusively white.”
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“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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