TIFF ‘22 Coverage: ‘The Greatest Beer Run Ever’
The Vietnamese perspective is not only completely ignored in 'The Greatest Beer Run Ever', but it is blatantly whitewashed and disrespected.

When a young woman, Bharani Verma, is found dead under mysterious circumstances, the police quickly arrest Kartik Saxena, making him the prime suspect in a seemingly open-and-shut murder case. But as the courtroom battle begins, every testimony uncovers new questions instead of answers. Hidden relationships, conflicting statements, and buried secrets gradually transform a simple murder trial into a gripping mystery where nothing is as it appears. Beyond the suspense, the film also explores a thought-provoking question: Have marriage and legal battles become a silent punishment for some innocent men, or is the truth far more complex than it seems? With every hearing, the truth becomes more elusive, and just when the verdict seems certain, an unexpected twist changes the entire direction of the case. A taut courtroom suspense thriller that keeps the audience guessing until the very last moment.
The Vietnamese perspective is not only completely ignored in 'The Greatest Beer Run Ever', but it is blatantly whitewashed and disrespected.
As this critic continues to look back at some of this Summer's films I have taken in, I would be remiss if I didn't mention one of the most overall unsettling trends in Hollywood over the last several years.....sequels, reboots, and remakes. Look, I am all for seeing more than one film for certain originals that made a splash, ie: "Jurassic Park", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Transformers", etc.
Movies also have the ability to make the audience think deeper about an issue that plagues society. "Blindspotting" does that without shying away from the intense reality of police brutality and racial discrimination.
Episode 3, entitled “Now in Color,” brings us to the 1970s — a decade full of vibrancy, color, and total mayhem.
But what many do not know is that in 2019, a Wonder Woman film was released that had all of the positive qualities of WW84, and remedied many of the negative ones. Wonder Woman: Bloodlines, a direct-to-video animated movie in the DC Animated Movie Universe, perfectly balances the campiness and seriousness of the character.
As an extremely avid fan of DC’s animation, I’ve become familiar with the way the studio uses Batman as a bit of a Trojan Horse to introduce some of their lesser known characters.