Born in Sin 

“There’s always something you can do…to make people feel like they’re welcome”

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. 

Wanda and Vision are suffering under the stress of parenting their twin boys.

This coming-of-age movie discusses immigration issues in the United States through the eyes of two exchange students in Brazil.

Pose tells stories of queer joy and love in a time of intense hate and sadness.

Baggage’s experimental mixed formats visualized a woman’s brave inner journey of visiting the museum of her fragmented memories.