“I’m a newspaperman!”: Howard Hawks softened a political satire into a proto-feminist romcom
"His Girl Friday" set the bar for romcoms and gave us a feminist heroine before feminism was cool.

A nonbinary Chinese nursing student seeks a gender-affirming life in Iowa, despite facing challenges with racism and xenophobia.
"His Girl Friday" set the bar for romcoms and gave us a feminist heroine before feminism was cool.
Villeneuve’s Dune is a masterpiece for its crafting process, but references to David Lynch's picture are sometimes too obvious.
I Love You Forever, marketed as a “subversive” romantic comedy is in fact a painful horror film about a young woman deep in the throes of an abusive relationship.
A sweet slice-of-life anime that visualizes all the ways we creatively hide our vulnerabilities from the world.
A family drama is woven with quiet yet powerful forces of words and nature.
Birds of Prey has some of the best stunt work and choreography of 2020, and was the most fun I’d had in an action film since John Wick 3.