'The Polar Express' (2004)
A wondrously imaginative, diverse, and spirited allegory of childhood and the arduousness of adulthood.

Soil resounding, then the echo of dripping water submerged and muted in a river’s flow. A young filmmaker floats between old polaroids. Flickers. The recollected and the photographic become the canvas of a colorful intervention. The roughness of splashes seem an obvious reaction to years passing by in two minutes.
A wondrously imaginative, diverse, and spirited allegory of childhood and the arduousness of adulthood.
Although Christmas is a time of year for love and cheer for all, holiday cinema has not always represented diverse communities. Being a holiday with Christian origins, much of its media consists of straight white families or straight white romances. Luckily, modern years have been bringing with them plenty of POC and LGBTQ+ representation that the holidays so desperately need.
A family comedy that combines fantasy and normal school life.
True crime media is notoriously obsessed with the “missing white woman” trope, and yet the vast majority of American murder victims are male, and well over half are people of color.
'Jungle Cruise' is fun if you can ignore the racism of the ride it’s based on and the film’s bland, stereotypical characters.
Greta Garbo, a queer actress playing a real-life queer Queen is the best of both worlds.