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“Happiest Season” Shows Queers Joy Is Sometimes Elusive
Happiest Season has big shoes to fill though there is really no other movie like it.
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BitchWatch: 15 Holiday Movies Feminists Should Watch this Winter
Happy watching and happy holidays.
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Meaningless Mashup: “Holidate” Proves Netflix Hasn’t Nailed the Holiday Rom-Com
“Holidate” is a Hallmark-inspired movie for straight people who think saying words like “tits” makes them edgy.
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Shot to Pieces: “Pieces of a Woman” Is a New Take on a Well-Worn Trope
What does it mean to make an “authentic” film about tragedy?
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Disney’s “Mulan” Remake Doesn’t Challenge the Patriarchy. It Reinforces It
In the apocalyptic hellscape that is today’s political climate, we deserved a Mulan with humanity.
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Begone with the Wind: How Hollywood Rewrites Slavery
If these cinematic perceptions of slavery are committed to memory, then we might accept the plantation as a mere backdrop to terror rather than the very site of it.
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“An American Pickle” Finds Humor in Uniquely Jewish Hardship
Seth Rogen embodies both his own Jewish present and a collective and just-out-of-reach Jewish past.
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Third Party Clarity: Therapy Is a Luxury for Pop Culture’s Troubled Mother-Daughter Pairs
In film and television, few relationships are as fraught as the one between a mother and a daughter.
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Trauma-Centered Art Should Be the Future of #MeToo
The film is an offering to those who have been affected by gendered violence.
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“Palm Springs” Taps into the Idea That Time Loops Fix Women
The pursuit of betterment means losing a part of themselves along the way.
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