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Please, Take the Blue Pill: "The Matrix Resurrections" Review
Down the rabbit hole goes Thomas Anderson and so, therefore, must we, into “The Matrix Resurrections.”
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Web of Cries: “Spider-Man: No Way Home” Opens up the Multiverse to Explore Grief
Spider-Man: No Way Home shows that—no matter what magic or powers you have—grief impacts us all.
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“Harlem” Could’ve Offered Escapism. Instead, its Black Characters Are Woefully Unoriginal
The new show makes confusing choices that deliver woefully unoriginal Black characters.
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Femme Fatale: The Allure of the “House of Gucci” Antiheroine
This story is not about the downfall of magnificent men, it’s about the tragedy of a woman who flew too close to the sun.
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Feminist-ish: The “Cool” Asian Hair Streak Trope
In its most egregious examples, the “cool” Asian hair streak trope is used to camouflage underwritten characters who lack personality.
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Man Down: "The Power Of the Dog" Is a Brutal Meditation on Masculinity
Jane Campion’s new film explores what makes a man, and what traps him.
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Double Down: "King Richard" Is an Ode to the Power of Believing in Black Girls
“King Richard” succeeds in drawing us to root for the Williams family to beat the odds against them—the specter of both genteel and bloody racism, the gang violence that threatens their neighborhood.
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Rare Delight: : "Sort Of" Is a Refreshingly Complex Take on Nonbinary Life
What makes Sort Of work is its exploration of a nesting series of communities; one is diverse and queer, featuring people of a variety of genders and sexualities who move fluidly through each other’s lives in a way that highlights the rapid diversification of the LGBQT community... Read more »
Feminist-ish: The “Little Miss Badass” Trope
The trope itself is powerful because audiences also often perceive young women as vulnerable and nonthreatening, and the reveal that a character is secretly a Little Miss Badass subverts their own expectations of the narrative.
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Feminist-ish : The Straw Feminist Trope
Welcome to Feminist-ish: a video series deconstructing the feminist-adjacent tropes that we love to hate.
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