Post #1969986

2026-05-01 03:21 UTC

The Woman King Blade (I enjoyed all 3, but it helps to be high for them) Everything Everywhere All At Once Parasite Sinners RRR Honourable mention because it’s my favourite, for a bit of LGBT diversity - Love Lies Bleeding

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@SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-05-01 13:09

Edit to add (that nobody else has mentioned) - Big Hero 6

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@zikzak025@lemmy.world 2026-05-01 16:05

Sinners is such a good movie. Not just for the music and overall quality, but because it tackles the topic of whiteness and who counts in the in-group. It’s a very successful racialized film. For similar reasons is why I’m not 100% on The Woman King, which is an interesting parallel to Sinners in a way. Sinners is a work of fiction that isn’t meant to depict real events, but feels like it is coming from a real place. The Woman King is an ostensibly historical story, but it performs a good bit of revisionism to the nation of Dahomey, which was a key participant in the transatlantic slave trade. The story of the film is one which would be nice to believe, but doesn’t feel genuine and leaves a bit of a bad aftertaste.

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