Trans Allegories in Film: 'Your Name' (2016)
Our protagonists perform as the opposite gender while still preserving the parts of their personalities that makes themselves who they are.

Tama Nanjo has been frequenting mini-theaters since she was a child. Her dream was to become a professional guitarist. One day, she casually uploaded a video of herself playing a song by a band she admired onto social media and an unexpected person seemed to have seen it...
Our protagonists perform as the opposite gender while still preserving the parts of their personalities that makes themselves who they are.
If the message here is that without a support system, grieving people turn into monsters, it’s not really well-delivered and may be flawed as a message itself.
Dune has stunning visuals, a striking soundtrack, and great performances. But it has issues everywhere from its pacing, to its story, to its diverse representation.
In The Women and the Murderer, directors Mona Achache and Patricia Tourancheau center women—the very demographic true crime is designed to appeal to.
At 2:17 a.m., every child in a third-grade class wakes up, leaves their home, and disappears into the darkness—except one. The next day, teacher Justine Gandy discovers that Alex Lily is the only student left, while the rest have vanished without a trace. Did Justine have something to do with it, or is a far more sinister force stalking the town, targeting not just children, but anyone in its path?
The trouble with Yara (2021) is that in its attempt to tell the whole story, it struggles to tell a consistently engaging story.