SXSW Panel Recap: Sex & Text: Breaking Down Movie Stereotypes w/ AI

StoryFit on dismantling unhealthy gender roles in Hollywood

"...the entertainment industry, presented their recent findings on gender stereotypes found in film to a small but fascinated audience..."

March 12, 2018 SXSW Post by Sarah Marloff

Stereotypes Are All True?

"...Regarding Nancy P. Daley's letter [“Postmarks,” Sept. 17] concerning stereotypes about men, all the opinions about men that she..."

Sept. 16, 2010 Postmarks

Perpetuating Untrue Stereotypes

"...set in Georgia. I understand that there are many stereotypes concerning West Virginia which are incorrect. That being said,..."

Oct. 9, 2012 Postmarks

Mister Johnson

"...in Tender Mercies). He also has a way with stereotypes. As with Driving Miss Daisy, the racial stereotypes presented..."

May 17, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gangster Squad

Despite uneven filmmaking and questionable facts, an extraordinary cast brings this story about mobster Mickey Cohen's attempted takeover of L.A. and the handful of honest cops who thwarted him.

"...O’Mara recruits a cross section of familiar stereotypes. The wise-cracking Sgt. Jerry Wooters (Gosling) is O’Mara’s sidekick..."

Jan. 11, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Marci X

A hip-hop artist and a Jewish American Princess discover that bling-bling makes the world go ’round.

"...& Out) has no bite, little humor, and redundant stereotypes. The actors are solid, despite seeming reined in, and..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

No More Cartoon Villains

Dismantling insulting stereotypes with the Cinema Touching Disability Film Festival

"...films while stressing the need for these rigid, ongoing stereotypes to be dismantled to make way for the more..."

Oct. 19, 2018 Screens Feature by Julian DeBerry

The Art of Self-Defense

Jesse Eisenberg excels as the mouse that roars in this karate black comedy

"...years playing characters defined in opposition to traditional masculine stereotypes, and here a strong performance – and a little..."

July 12, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Fall of the American Empire

Oscar winner Denys Arcand mixes crime, political commentary

"...cases, the ones we never see). True to Canadian stereotypes, it is a polite evisceration: a slap and a..."

June 28, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

MFKZ

Franco-Japanese anime spoofs rap culture clumsily

"...the city, descended from Aztec warriors). Cue ultraviolence, gang stereotypes, and a bucketload of plots that never really go..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Sausage Party

An animated film for adults from Seth Rogen and friends

"...premise, spottily funny execution, and eye-rolling gender and cultural stereotypes windmilling at subversiveness...."

Aug. 19, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Meet the Mormons

This documentary seeks to debunk stereotypes by introducing us to six Mormons from around the world.

"...reviewed at press time. This documentary seeks to debunk stereotypes by introducing us to six members of the Church..."

Oct. 10, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Endless Love

New era, same old story: young passions, forbidden love, and parents who just don't understand.

"...comedy. If the vanilla, homogenized, soap opera/TV commercial, teen-romance stereotypes had just been pushed a bit further, one could..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

This overflowing action stew is loaded to the brim with half-formed ideas, action stereotypes, and hints of characters.

"...stew loaded to the brim with half-formed ideas, action stereotypes, and hints of characters. There is no idea too..."

April 5, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

A Haunted House

Marlon Wayans spoofs Paranormal Activity.

"...parody, while Wayans and co-writer Rick Alvarez flog gross stereotypes about gender and race (Mandingo parties are a recurring..."

Jan. 18, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection

No luck: Madea doesn't assume a new identity and disappear. Instead the old gal takes in Eugene Levy, playing an investor implicated in a Ponzi scheme.

"...filmmaking techniques as well as their perpetuation of racial stereotypes...."

July 6, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tucker & Dale vs. Evil

This is the rare horror comedy that near-perfectly balances its blend of grue, guffaws, and gag reflexes.

"...script with Morgan Jurgenson) plays off genre and real-life stereotypes with giddy panache, and Tudyk and Labine make their..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family

Madea is tasked once again with fixing a broken family.

"...Madea films, which are brokers of racial and sexual stereotypes and upholders of the importance of Christian religious faith..."

April 29, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mother and Child

Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, and Kerry Washington lead a wonderful ensemble cast in this muzzy look into the rigors of adoption.

"...turning what had theretofore been thorny characterizations into banal stereotypes. Yet if powerhouse performances are the sum of what..."

June 18, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Did You Hear About the Morgans?

Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker play a feuding New York City couple who rediscover their love while out West.

"...forgettable and lackluster fish-out-of-water rom-com. The film exploits tired stereotypes about city and country folks while being propped up..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

American Teen

A princess, jock, rebel, heartthrob, and geek: It could be The Breakfast Club, but American Teen is instead a documentary that ducks the consequences of its own making.

"...students are a truly representative lot or whether they’re stereotypes that fit Burstein’s preconceptions. Burstein’s judgment also becomes an..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rendition

Intelligent and well-meaning, Rendition is nevertheless an oversimplified and uneven attempt to arouse righteous indignation among its viewers.

"...and easy dismissal due to the film's overreliance on stereotypes and diffuse melodrama. Gyllenhaal plays a CIA analyst portentously..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Who's Your Caddy?

Hip-hop culture invades the golf course in this instantly disposable and not terribly funny comedy.

"...black characters against idiotic white folk. If not for stereotypes, Who’s Your Caddy? would have no characters at all...."

Aug. 3, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kickin' It Old Skool

Jamie Kennedy wakes up after a breakdancing injury put him in a coma 20 years ago. That's when this film's real trauma begins.

"...of the Boys (now all settled adults and comic stereotypes) and proceeds to dance his way through a series..."

May 4, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Wassup Rockers

Larry Clark, the director of Kids, is back 10 years later with this look at a group of teenage male Latinos in Los Angeles who have more than the usual difficulties finding somewhere to fit in.

"...white Beverly Hills society – is portrayed in garish stereotypes that dispel the movie’s sense of realism. As a..."

July 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Annapolis

Annapolis is a thick but hardly meaty slice of old-school Hollywood hokum.

"...need to toss in a rogues gallery of boot-camp stereotypes, including the Loudmouth (Calderon), the Crusty Old Salt (Wahlberg),..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Crash

The paths of a seemingly unconnected, multicultural group of Los Angelenos cross in the most compelling American movie to come around in a long while.

"...his line of work, and so on. Because racial stereotypes and prejudices form most of our uninformed judgments about..."

May 6, 2005 Movie Review by Steve Davis

A Silent Love

A Mexican and Canadian production, A Silent Love puts an unusual spin on some of the clichés of the romantic comedy.

"...which debuted at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, subverts stereotypes with its gentle humor...."

Dec. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Cookout

Don't get burned on these leftover stereotypes.

"...suspects, with his role, the filmmakers mean to tweak stereotypes, but instead only reinforce them. Same goes for Danny..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Acting Out and Causing Trouble

The works in "Difficult Daughters," the final installation in the Blanton Museum of Art's "Projections" series of contemporary films, show women acting out and causing trouble, but they also demonstrate how women of different generations approach feminism.

"..."Every one of these works challenges stereotypes and asserts female empowerment," says Baum. "The films show..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Arts Feature by Molly Beth Brenner

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