
The friendship between two rebellious teens is turned upside down when their isolated desert community announces the imminent rapture. Facing parallel yet private crises of faith, sexuality, and gender identity, Zeke and Harpo clash, rebuffing in the other what they cannot accept within themselves, and diverge onto two starkly different paths, each leading to a frightening and uncertain future. A queer, surreal coming-of-age story for the “doomer” generation.
Shadow & Bone excels in natural story representation with powerful centering of culture. Jessie Mei Li stars as Alina Starkov, the feisty cartographer with kindness, innocence, and integrity, who comes to be revealed as the legendary summoner of light.
It is not hard to make a musical biopic that pleases audiences and draws a profit. Michael is no exception.
The Vietnamese perspective is not only completely ignored in 'The Greatest Beer Run Ever', but it is blatantly whitewashed and disrespected.
Ruben Östlund muses about his characters, “As soon as you get close to a person, you see them as just another human being”. It is widely recognized that aboard the luxury yacht in ‘Triangle of Sadness’, the different groups of people represent a small society as a commentary on classism and gender binaries.
Everyone needs a BFF and a "wing person" like Yumi (Chloris Li). Li brings the "straight person" persona, literally and figuratively balancing James Aaron Oh's perfectly timed comedic delivery as the unlucky-in-love.