“Over the course of the film, Brief History of a Family organizes itself within the context of China’s one-child policy.”
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“Aging and disability often go hand in hand, and Josh Margolin easily works that fact into Thelma, leveraging it for power and humor.”
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“Origin’s Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor gives a soul-stirring performance, but she can’t rein in the overstretched film by sheer force of will.”
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“Mean Girls takes a benign but superficial approach to diversity.”
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“It’s disappointing to see the talented actors of color in Poor Things given so little to do.”
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“With just four characters to home in on, All of Us Strangers eschews breadth in favor of depth.”
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“American Fiction’s small inclusion-related missteps undermine its own thesis.”
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“It’s refreshing to see a transmasc actor play a pivotal part of Talk to Me without having their gender identity exploited.”
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“I was uncomfortable watching yet another film about tortured white male genius when the victims of the atrocities glossed over by Oppenheimer had no voice.”
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“Rustin doesn’t go far enough to say anything of substance.”
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“Saltburn toes the blurred line between a positive reclamation of the ‘evil gays’ trend and a negative stereotype.”
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“Omoiyari: A Song Film by Kishi Bashi delves into Japanese American history and identity, but at times its discussions on race feel underdeveloped.”
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“Thrilling, dark, and visibly diverse, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes makes for an enjoyable update to the blockbuster trilogy.”
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“Characters in The Holdovers have an assortment of disabilities—some of them normalized, but some that border on cliché.”
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“Killers of the Flower Moon stakes its curiosity in the sins of white men rather than in the rich lives and contributions of Native peoples.”
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“100 Yards neatly deviates from its more jingoistic peers by painting a slightly nuanced picture of a global port city in the 1920s.”
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“Though it shares a perspective that’s sorely underrepresented in film, Bye Bye Tiberias stands too close to its subjects.”
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“Seagrass incorporates themes of being Japanese Canadian and biracial with coherent, if sometimes heavy-handed language.”
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“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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