“Red, White & Royal Blue continues a bias for a certain type of queer presentation.”
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“Shortcomings doesn’t try to force any answers on us, acknowledging the thorniness of honest, unfiltered conversations.”
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“It’s rare to see Black Muslim Americans depicted with the understated authenticity seen in To Live and Die and Live.”
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“She Said communicates Jodi’s Jewish background through important scenes.”
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“Tobias Lindholm renders The Good Nurse with more sensitivity than other titles in the true crime genre.”
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“The Eternal Daughter uses a complicated mother-daughter relationship as its central mystery.”
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“For a film that gleefully takes down those in power, Triangle of Sadness’ reliance on disability tropes feels like an incongruous misfire.”
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“Bones of Crows features a few disability tropes.”
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“Aristotle and Dante walks the right side of the line that separates stereotype and representation.”
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“The Asian filmmakers behind Easter Sunday blissfully craft a film that avoids the white gaze.”
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“Olivia and daughter Addy exert clear-cut boundaries and avoid the gendered pitfall of having to ‘fix’ the man in their lives.”
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“Depictions of gang-riddled Los Angeles leave much to be desired, but the traversing of two social worlds does feel honest to the Black experience.”
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“Though men are the main breadwinners in Belfast, Branagh successfully shows that it is in fact the women who rule the roost.”
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“It’s still sadly rare to see female characters working in STEM given the grace to be imperfect on screen.”
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