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"...replaces the usual robots with a who's-who of tex-mex stereotypes. The tone of the entire video is silly making..."

June 2, 2011 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Just Go With It

Instead of seeming effortless, this Adam Sandler/Jennifer Aniston comedy has the lazy appearance of being effort-free.

"...the film’s gratuitous jokes about ugly people and gay stereotypes, and you have a movie that is content to..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

TV Eye: It Was a Very Good Year

The usual suspects and a few surprises marked a great year on TV

"...some online chatter about how Modern Family trades in stereotypes, particularly with Latina bombshell Sofia Vergara. I counter that..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

First Look in the Mirror

"...Sept. 17], Nancy P. Daley, Ph.D., cloaks her personal stereotypes in her academic mantle attempting to justify and validate..."

Sept. 25, 2010 Postmarks

The Last Airbender

M. Night Shyamalan's live-action film is based on a popular animated series on Nickelodeon, and although the movie retains the series' mythology, it loses all its humor and suspense.

"...traits seem to be grounded in other, more conventional stereotypes. The good water tribes live amid the white snow..."

July 2, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The World Is Flat

How King of the Hill helped make Texas three-dimensional again

"...infuriating as the firsthand knowledge that many of those stereotypes land pretty close to the truth are the craven..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

My Life in Ruins

Nia Vardalos, who hit pay dirt with My Big Fat Greek Wedding, is on shakier ground with this clichéd story about an American tourist guide in Greece.

"...she translates as “mojo.” Her busload of gauche tourist stereotypes isn’t helping her mood any, and neither is the..."

June 5, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sunshine Cleaning

Two sisters try to remedy the financial and emotional paralysis of their lives by starting a company that specializes in crime-scene cleanups.

"...characters aren’t human beings but cultural signifiers and indie-movie stereotypes created to survive in the laboratory safety of the..."

March 27, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Tricking Straight Women

LifeTime's Gay, Straight, or Taken is icky.

"...on who is who based on gut feelings (i.e. stereotypes) and then externalize their observations, saying things like "Brian,..."

March 5, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

Redbelt

Although David Mamet's new film, which is set in the mixed-martial arts fight world, contains all the storyteller's familiar motifs, Redbelt may also represent his most commercial venture yet.

"...run the fights are ill-defined and tend toward broad stereotypes, although the martial arts milieu nevertheless has a realistic..."

May 9, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay

Everyone's favorite stoner pals are back; this time running from the law after being mistaken for terrorists.

"...they run into a whole cavalcade of American racial stereotypes, and none of them – not the whites in..."

May 2, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Redacted

Brian De Palma's film brims with spontaneity and fury regarding America's involvement in the war in Iraq. (Ends Monday.)

"...victim to the shorthand of images. The use of stereotypes is prevalent throughout Redacted, whether it is the racism..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Talented If Not Young

The artists in Mexic-Arte's 'YLA No. 11' may be beyond youth, but they're still definitely deserving of attention

"...The works presented simultaneously explore and reject the contradictory stereotypes imposed on contemporary youth culture: idealistic/apathetic, ascetic/materialistic, carefree/despondent, selfless/egotistical,..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Material Girls

The Duff sisters star as heiresses who must learn to earn a living when their cosmetics firm goes belly-up.

"...film where gays and minorities not only fit into stereotypes, but embrace them, and where it's OK to be..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Movie Review by Brian Clark

The King

First-time filmmaker James Marsh delivers a Texas gothic that stars Gael García Bernal and William Hurt, but the characters lack depth and humanity.

"...a dynamic and complex one that transcends the usual stereotypes associated with Southern Baptists. But, while Marsh pays close..."

July 7, 2006 Movie Review by Brian Clark

The Christening: Ali Fitzgerald and Cruz Ortiz

Risa Puleo's concept for her new gallery The Donkey Show and the paintings by Ali Fitzgerald in it are provocative in a way that only the strongest incitements to thought can be

"...an "under the Big Top" scene gone awry. Lifting stereotypes from her research into eyewitness accounts of the Donkey..."

May 19, 2006 Arts Review by Nikki Moore

Waiting ...

This frequently offensive and doggedly disgusting film about working in the restaurant industry is technically inept and wholly crude.

"...90% of the punchlines – traffics wholly in crude stereotypes. (Waiting … is not unlike solitary confinement with your..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Mad Hot Ballroom

The filmmakers would have us embrace their work as though it were the Spellbound of grade-school dance documentaries, but the film loses its footing.

"...the program or how the program reinforces the sexual stereotypes of proper behavior for little ladies and gentlemen. And..."

June 17, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Touch of Pink

This queercentric romantic comedy gets its inspiration from culture clash and the ghost of Cary Grant.

"...becomes more complicated as the film progresses and the stereotypes recede for real human beings to take their place...."

Sept. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Tokyo Godfathers

A homeless drag queen adopts an orphan in what is, but for some violence and harsh language, old-fashioned, big-hearted entertainment in high animé style.

"...– is one of those swoonily hysterical drag queen stereotypes, but he fits right into writer-director Satoshi’s loopy vision...."

Jan. 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

After a Fashion

Speaking of Queer Eyes: Hey, don't look at us … everybody calls it SoCo. And everybody seems to love the new Nordstrom … including our Style Avatar.

"...been lots of hue and cry about what awful stereotypes are portrayed on the show. But the true beauty..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Writing Austin's Lives

"...think of ZIP codes 78702, 78757, 78705, or others, stereotypes jump to mind first: poor mom working two jobs,..."

July 4, 2003 Features Feature by Abe Louise Young

Post-Minstrel Syndrome

Blackface Is a white fantasy about the way things used to be

"..."Race" and the inevitable stereotypes that follow are mental creations that have taken on..."

June 20, 2003 Arts Feature by Verushka Gray

Aurora Picture Show's Rock Star Parking

"...program of short films and video that challenge the stereotypes about the physically disabled is curated by Carlos Lama..."

Jan. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mr. Deeds

"...dishonest con artists. Mr. Deeds wallows in its broad stereotypes and stunted vision. Although it follows the template of..."

June 28, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Undercover Brother

"...film isn't afraid to skewer both white and black stereotypes, either, and does so with a childlike glee that..."

June 7, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Negacao Do Brasil (Denying Brazil)

"...with English subtitles) provides a study of the taboos, stereotypes, and struggles of black actors in the Brazilian television..."

March 19, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Storytelling

"...autobiographical fictions, while the professor uses the prejudices and stereotypes of his white female students against them in Mandingo-like..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Killing of Sister George

"...when it was first released. Today, some of the stereotypes may chafe, but the movie remains funny and riveting...."

July 11, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

TV Eye

Does KLBJ's new TV ad using bare-backed women as billboards upset TV Eye's Belinda Acosta? Not as much as those warm and fuzzy pharmaceutical ads that prey on hypochondria and insult women.

"...physical causes of PMS and so conjures those creaky stereotypes of the crazed woman who must be contained. Break..."

March 9, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

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