“Margot Robbie plays the main character in Barbie, but it’s Latina women—America Ferrera’s Gloria and onscreen daughter Sasha—that tug at the heartstrings the most.”
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“In Elemental, the choice to present Wade as the catalyst for Ember’s growth devalues her strength and independence.”
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“The Miracle Club’s fumbling ‘Mr. Mom’ scenes feel dated, banking on an audience that finds male ineptitude silly, rather than simply frustrating.”
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“Asian women get to be sexy, horny, and messy in Joy Ride, rather than exotified or leered at through a white male gaze.”
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“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny fulfills its don’t-cancel-me quota and phones in the rest.”
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“Gwen takes on a larger role in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.”
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“My burning question going into Fast X was ‘Would there be #JusticeForHan?’”
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“Characters in Gaga organically mingle Christian and Atayal beliefs.”
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“Given the pressing need for a wider range of movies that happen to feature LGBTQ relationships, The Mattachine Family should be embraced.”
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“Polite Society draws from the personal frustrations and challenges of writer-director Nida Manzoor, who grew up in a Pakistani Muslim family.”
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“Alejandro’s financial stress—and existential dread—in Problemista as he waits to get a visa sponsorship could just as easily have been my own.”
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“While Bottoms features a diverse cast with Black and queer main characters, it stays light on topics of identity.”
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“The Long Game resorts to Hollywood pitfalls of white saviors and respectability politics.”
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“As a Panamanian-Chilean co-production with a Costa Rican filmmaker at the helm, diversity among Latinos organically takes place in Sister and Sister.”
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“Women Talking doesn’t stop with what women can do for each other. It also shows what true allyship from men looks like.”
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“Elvis reinforces the flimsy justifications often given for Presley’s appropriation of Black culture.”
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“Women in Top Gun: Maverick don’t see much development, but written dialogue and camerawork treat them with respect.”
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“The character of Spider is the embodiment of cultural appropriation in Avatar: The Way of Water.”
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“It feels lazy for Tár to use the one wheelchair user as a symbolic shorthand for a fate worse than death.”
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“It’s nice to see a woman in a semi-autobiographical narrative of a male filmmaker who doesn’t appear as just another flat character.”
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