Bleak Night 

This little Netflix film was very inspirational. It passes the Bechdel test, and features a different worldview with rural Indian representation.

Emily Henry’s adaptation reaches romance movie standards, but not romance reader standards.

I imagine that it would be a dream job for an actor to play the parts of twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey in I Know This Much Is True.

Netflix’s Shadow and Bone has a complicated relationship with race. It has a diverse cast, but not without its problems. Based on Leigh Bardugo’s two book series, the show features characters from the Shadow and Bone trilogy, which is very straight and white, and the Six of Crows duology, which is much more diverse. When bringing together a cast and writing about these characters, the team behind the show expanded upon some of the representation missing from the first trilogy, then seemed to take away representation from the duology. Shadow and Bone seems to play a bit of a push and pull game when it comes to portraying diversity onscreen.

The documentary depicts the indigenous people of Mexico with sublime reverence, highlighting a generational harmony with the land.

The highly anticipated Marvel superhero movie of the year displays important themes of loss, loneliness, and change.