Sentences with phrase «film is racist»

It's horribly condescending in the same way the character of Boolie's wife (Patti Lupone) is treated throughout, so... if we must argue that the film is racist, may we at least not argue that it's misogynistic?

I suspect that the film is racist in its depiction of a trio of «sassy Black chicks» led by the insufferable Mo'Nique Imes Jackson, just as I suspect that the screenplay by Kelly is no good, but I'll be honest with you: Domino is impossible to judge in any useful way.

You'd have similar cause to complain that the monkeys in the film are racist, being voiced by black actors and depicted as lazy, thuggish layabouts.

Not exact matches

To add insult to injury, Wilson screened The Birth of a Nation — which glorifies the Ku Klux Klan and portrays actors in blackface, among its other racist offenses — in the White House and subsequently praised the film for being «so terribly true.»

Much like trolls» attempts to affect Black Panther «s status as a critical darling, the Twitter posts describing fake attacks at movie screenings also seemed to be part of a racist campaign meant to scare people away from theaters in order to hurt the film's overall box - office gross (again, a major fail).

Among them: assertions that Hogan filed the lawsuit to hide racist comments made on video, that the woman who Hogan had sex with knew it was being filmed, and that Hogan participated in an FBI investigation and sting because he was being extorted.

His character, the dim and racist cop Dixon, is the most controversial figure in the film, but Rockwell handles a tricky balancing act with grace and will surely be rewarded.

On Twitter, the most polarizing thing about Three Billboards is how the film handles his racist - cop character, but do Oscars voters agree?

There was nudity, although in fleeting glimpses, and there was violence, albeit without gore, and there was anti-Catholic, racist, and «un-American» content in more than a few films.

The 34 - year - old said supporters from the club, who were filmed pushing a black passenger off public transport in the French capital and chanting racist songs before Chelsea's match with Paris Saint Germain, were «unacceptable».

The report has been released within weeks of the ugly incidents in Paris where a group of Chelsea fans were filmed chanting about being racists, whilst also preventing a black man from boarding the metro, ahead of their Champions League tie with Paris Saint - Germain.

Anna Barmina, 33, took almost one year to regain A former teacher who was filmed screaming racial slurs at a Dollar Tree employee, says she is too educated to be racist.

Apparently the only reason anyone can find for watching this is the fact that it is River Phoenix» final film, since it's not only incomplete but mainly sterile and forgettable, unable to be tense or sexy as a provocative thriller and with some serious racist and sexist undertones.

Anyone who hates this movie because it does not comport with their beliefs about the «real story» is either a racist or simply misses the point: Phiona overcomes great odds to achieve what she does in the film.

Spike Lee delivers an intentionally shocking and racist film that winds up being shockingly racist in unintentional ways.

During the film he is shown to be deceptive, racist, lecherous and a man unashamedly motivated by money.

But that «last customer» line plays like an old Schwarzenegger kiss - off, and the lawless killing is followed by equal - time commentary from black and white talk - radio hosts — the film's explicit attempt to defuse any racist overtones.

The film's only arresting aspect is its takedown of the Russian military: homophobic, racist, xenophobic, and barbaric.

The best jokes in the film come at the expense of cretinous racists, especially a ten - minute argument between a proto - Klan group, the Regulators, that drags on so long it's sublimely comical — and proffers an explanation for the Ku Klux Klan's pointed hoods.

Maybe both, and that's what gives the film's best parts their danger — the way that Tarantino, with lip - smacking down - and - dirty subversive gusto, rubs our noses in the forbidden spectacle of America's racist ugliness.

Will a person who happens to be white ever be able to make a criticism of a film or actor that is not white and not be a racist?

Yet, there is a very real risk that you will be lableled as a racist for criticizing black panther, or the work of the 29 year old director who was given the keys to a $ 200,000,000 budget after making only 2 independent films.

I still don't understand the people who accuse the film of being demeaning or racist in its depiction of Japan.

«That party sequence is why I really wanted to do this film, because I've been to that party,» Kaluuya said of a scene in which Chris politely navigates a series of white strangers whose pleasantries are edged with passive - aggressive racist undertones.

Could you imagine if a cheeky shot was leaked out of Bruce Willis wearing a racist sandwich board, in the nude, before the film was released and therefore out of context?

It's actually a pretty straightforward film, albeit one filled with eccentric choices: quirky Tarantino-esque monologues delivered in formal period speech; slow, rambling scenes punctuated with extreme gore; antagonists that could be read as racist caricatures, except the movie bends over backward to assure you they're not; and, to cap it all off, an operatic theme song that lays out the plot, Gilligan's Island - style.

These criticisms are the only moments that prevent The Searchers from being the most racist film I've ever seen.

The theme of the film can't purely be that there are racist, awful cops out there.

Filled with all manner of sexist, racist, xenophobic stereotypes, Deadpool runs the gamut of offensive «humor» to please the young male audience that is certain to eat up its delinquency — or at least it would be offensive if it felt like the film had any measure of relevance to it.

For example, Spike Lee said of Django Unchained that slavery was «not a Spaghetti Western» and he wouldn't «disrespect his ancestors» by seeing the film; Denzel Washington had a long feud with Tarantino over what he also felt were the director's racists sensibilities.

In The Searchers he's an extreme racist but by the end of the film you are deeply sympathetic with him.

In a film full of so many incredibly bad elements, the fact that they were able to cast an African - American willing to make a mockery of the legitimate pleas of actual victims of racist police brutality is beyond comprehension, especially a comedian held in such high regard.

Released in the same year (1963) that saw Sidney Poitier become the first black man to win an Oscar in a major category (for Lilies in the Field), Donovan's Reef is a shockingly, unapologetically racist and misogynistic film about braggadocio, therapeutic rape, and belittling the natives.

The film doesn't exactly believe in or sympathize with Bass's racist attitudes, yet they're too potent to square with the aggressively light tone of the rest of the film.

«No Escape» Criticwire Average: C - Jake Cole, Slant Magazine The only way that this film could be any more racist is if the Dwyer family holed up with Lillian Gish and waited for the Klan to save them.

Meanwhile, the two race relations films end on entirely optimistic notes, with «Guess Who's Coming to Dinner» presenting an interracial couple as the wave of the future, and «In the Heat of the Night» showing a formerly racist white police chief (Rod Steiger) and a black detective (Poitier) coming to a place of mutual respect and acceptance.

The first film award of the night was a mild surprise: Sam Rockwell won Best Supporting Actor for his performance as the violent, racist cop Jason Dixon in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Well actually let me clarify, it is a very offensive and racist film but still entertaining if that makes sense.

He makes comments that can be viewed as racist, sexist and homophobic, yet nearly every character in the film finds him to be consistently charming, and it's clear that MacFarlane wants us to think so too.

In spite of this whitewashing (it seems vaguely racist to use that phrase to describe a bunch of African - Americans), «Compton» is a highly entertaining film.

The film caught some flack for its racial and gender politics once it hit wide release with The Ringer's K. Austin Collins distilling why, in a year where the Academy is once again facing a potential #OscarsSoWhite crop of nominees, Rockwell's performance as a redeemed racist cop may not be the narrative Hollywood wants to push:

Laura is not portrayed as the film's White Savior, nor as the disdainful, racist plantation wife.

The film is winning rave reviews, and earning praise for Rockwell's performance as a racist Missouri cop, garnering Best Supporting Actor buzz.

These people may have fallen down some rabbit hole of their own devising, but couldn't it be argued that we have as well, in a topsy - turvy world that finds its reflection onscreen, alongside references to Trump and racist websites, not to mention such diverse films as Django Unchained, Eyes Wide Shut, and Fight Club.

There had been some talk, in the lead up to award season, that the fact that Rockwell played a racist, one who ended the film on the road to at least some sort of redemption, should have somehow been counted against him.

Sam Rockwell's racist Officer Dixon may not be the most likable character in the film «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» but after winning best supporting actor at the Golden Globes, he was an easygoing and charming presence backstage in the press room.

Mary J. Blige (Mudbound), meanwhile, makes a strong case for herself as a serious actress playing the burdened matriarch of a family living in the racist South, and Hong Chau (Downsizing) is the breakout star of her film, commanding attention as a disabled and dissident Vietnamese refugee.

Thankfully the goodwill towards its affable stars goes some way towards dulling its coarseness — the film is passively racist in its depiction of a dangerous South America, coming more from Levine's hammering of cliche than actual ill intent.

The spoofy nature of the film kind of softens the edges a bit, but it's still pretty bad, and it proves that Asians are still one of the last frontiers of Hollywood racist stereotypes.

There's a scene early in Justin Simien's debut film Dear White People where Sam (Tessa Thompson)- a student at a fictional Harvard - ish Ivy League school who's known for organizing rallies against racist school policies - has an argument with her white friend -...