Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady (1997)

Marvel’s first Asian superhero film, 'Shang-Chi', deserves praise for balancing epic superhero action, a heartfelt family plot, and positive Asian representation.

As a cultural touchstone, Jaws has launched a thousand parodies, tributes, and memorable quotes.

In Deaf, the Spanish director Eva Libertad explores pregnancy and motherhood from the perspective of a deaf woman. Her movie examines how the world imposes the notion of disability on her main character while she actually does not feel disabled herself.

Poor Black characters are usually surrounded by crime and violence, while poor White characters are portrayed as noble and hard-working.

When the world lost Chadwick Boseman on August 28, 2020, we all saw the impact of representation in film. Boseman was not only a Black superhero leading a Black cast in one of the most successful films in history; but his successes paved the way for more, long-overdue diversity in Hollywood.

A wondrously imaginative, diverse, and spirited allegory of childhood and the arduousness of adulthood.