Beach Villa 

Ralph and Vanellope unpack lots of surprises for those who love going on the Internet.

Our protagonists perform as the opposite gender while still preserving the parts of their personalities that makes themselves who they are.

A cat-and-mouse chase that will make viewers nostalgic for the cartoon series.

White audiences saw Peola’s mixed-race passing as a Black woman’s struggle to be white. Black audiences saw it as the rebellion of a Black woman trying to gain privileges only given to white people.

The Night Doctor achieves telling an original story in which the pace accelerates progressively while supported by dark aesthetics.

I write for a diversity-focused film review blog, so I’ll be honest: I really wanted to like Pretty Lethal. Starring Maddie Ziegler, Lana Condor, Iris Apatow, Avantika, and Millicent Simmonds, Amazon Prime’s new thriller seemed like it would be a girl power movie about dancers with a horror action twist. Sort of a Suspiria for teens. But with shallow and unlikeable characters, a confusing plot, an overreliance on violence, and cringey dialogue, any fun the movie started out with was quickly lost. What was left was a faint echo of greater horror movies about dancers made before.