“While Drive My Car counts as an easy win for multiculturalism, a male gaze persists throughout the film.”
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“CODA clearly trusts its magnetic cast to honestly portray dimensionality within a Deaf family.”
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“In a vacuum, Tick, Tick...Boom! does everything right.”
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“The issues that lurk beneath the surface of Shang-Chi leave me wondering when a necessary reckoning will happen.”
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“It’s possible to appreciate the instances of colorblind casting that increase opportunities for actors of color, so long as we don’t stop there.”
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“After Michelle Rodriguez called out F8 for its dated machismo, F9: The Fast Saga regains lost traction.”
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“The fact that Tig Notaro was cast only because a male sex offender was ‘found out’ slightly dampens the inclusiveness of Army of the Dead.”
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“Despite its oversimplification of Deaf culture, Sound of Metal generally constructs positive and nuanced characters.”
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“Only two women are given space in this story—and not much space, at that.”
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“For a film named after a groundbreaking blues icon, Ma Rainey frustratingly gets very little screen time.”
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“In The Legend of Molly Johnson, code switching becomes a matter of survival.”
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“Watching Amin embrace his sexuality and let himself go to the soaring tones of Daft Punk is all but guaranteed to bring a tear to your eye.”
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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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“Barb and Star proves that comedy doesn’t have to be offensive to make people laugh.”
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“While Try Harder! hints at the correlation between anti-Blackness and the model minority myth, it never quite threads anything together.”
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“Period films disproportionately favor male luminaries, casting history in a skewed light where the contributions of women remain obscure.”
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“Seeing a complex love story between two women onscreen—flawed though it may be—never stops feeling like a revelation.”
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“Is Over the Moon an Asian American story or a Chinese one? It tries to be both and winds up feeling like neither.”
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“Confident, sexy, fat, and dark-skinned, Dawn is an effortless flirt who responds to attention the way any gorgeous, spoiled woman would.”
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“Women generally live to be saved by men.”
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