"Apex" Captures the Primal Fear of Being a Woman
Given a choice between a man and a mountain, it’s safer to choose the mountain.

A world-famous soccer star retreats to a quiet college town to recover from a career-threatening injury, where he forms an unexpected connection with a guarded bartender determined to stay focused on her future - but as their bond deepens, both are forced to confront the fears that keep them from love.
Given a choice between a man and a mountain, it’s safer to choose the mountain.
A pop star at Radio City Music Hall gets the opportunity to change herself to save her music career.
In the film adaptation, director Jon M. Chu turns each musical number into a massive show stopper, with grand set pieces and a wealth of diverse dancers. Yet, in this attempt to show reverence for the people of the Washington Heights barrio, Chu, or maybe more specifically those in charge of casting, left out a crucial part of the community, Afro-Latinos.
Gay representation is out there, but to portray a character who's gay as a big, happy brute is a rare treat.
In Deaf, the Spanish director Eva Libertad explores pregnancy and motherhood from the perspective of a deaf woman. Her movie examines how the world imposes the notion of disability on her main character while she actually does not feel disabled herself.