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Bridgerton: Season 4

WOKE TRAP Series · Netflix · March 22, 2026

Bridgerton Season 4 is a Cinderella story set in a version of Regency England that has no memory of actual Regency England.…...

WOKE: 16.2 TRAD: 10 AUTH: 74%
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Queer

WOKE TRAP Film · Theatrical (A24) · March 19, 2026

Daniel Craig gives the best performance of his career in a film that probably should not work as well as it does....

WOKE: 17.5 TRAD: 4.2 AUTH: 20%
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The Notebook

TRADITIONAL Film · New Line Cinema · March 18, 2026

The professional critics never liked The Notebook. 53% on Rotten Tomatoes, 53 on Metacritic. 'Shameless manipulation,' one reviewer called it. 'A tearjerker with the subtlety of a sledgehammer.' The audience score is 86%.…...

WOKE: 3.4 TRAD: 17.14 AUTH: 93%
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Good Will Hunting

TRADITIONAL Film · Theatrical (Miramax) · March 18, 2026

Will Hunting is twenty years old, smarter than everyone in any room he has ever walked into, and entirely alone. He works as a janitor at MIT.…...

WOKE: 6.8 TRAD: 18.2 AUTH: 82%
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Past Lives

MIXED Film · Streaming · March 15, 2026

Celine Song's Past Lives is a film about what you give up when you choose to become someone. It is quiet, devastating, and almost defiantly apolitical in a cultural moment when apolitical means brave....

WOKE: 5.6 TRAD: 7.35 AUTH: 58%
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The Wedding Banquet

WOKE TRAP Film · Theatrical (Bleecker Street) · March 15, 2026

The original 1993 Wedding Banquet was a film about a gay man living a double life, caught between the love he had chosen and the family expectations he had not been able to refuse. It was genuinely moving because it took the parents seriously.…...

WOKE: 19 TRAD: 4 AUTH: 45%
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Anyone But You

TRADITIONAL LEAN Film · Theatrical · March 13, 2026

Anyone But You is the romantic comedy Hollywood forgot how to make. Not because it is especially brilliant, but because it is the simplest possible version of the thing it is trying to be: a film about two attractive people who are clearly meant for …...

WOKE: 3.75 TRAD: 12.32 AUTH: 77%
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Titanic

WOKE TRAP Film · Theatrical · March 12, 2026

Titanic holds a strange place in film history. It won eleven Academy Awards and $2.2 billion at the global box office in 1997. It made Leonardo DiCaprio a global superstar and Kate Winslet one of the defining actresses of her generation.…...

WOKE: 18.54 TRAD: 13.65 AUTH: N/A
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Elemental

TRADITIONAL LEAN Film · Disney+ · March 12, 2026

Pixar's Elemental arrived at the box office to an unexpectedly rocky opening weekend and then quietly became one of the most audience-beloved films of 2023. The critics gave it a middling 74%. The audiences gave it a 95%. That gap is not accidental.…...

WOKE: 12.2 TRAD: 19.74 AUTH: 84%
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People We Meet on Vacation

WOKE TRAP Film · Netflix · March 10, 2026

People We Meet on Vacation is the rom-com BookTok has been waiting for, and it delivers exactly what that audience wants: two impossibly attractive leads with crackling chemistry, beautiful international locations, a will-they-won't-they structure th…...

WOKE: 14 TRAD: 11 AUTH: 44%
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Reminders of Him

MIXED Film · Theatrical · March 6, 2026

Colleen Hoover is the most commercially powerful author in contemporary American publishing, and Reminders of Him represents her most emotionally ambitious story yet reaching the big screen.…...

WOKE: 14.61 TRAD: 16.08 AUTH: 55%
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We Live in Time

TRADITIONAL LEAN Film · Theatrical / A24 · March 4, 2026

We Live in Time is a weepie. An exceptionally well-made one, built on two of the finest performances in recent romantic cinema. It will make you cry. Whether it should is a more interesting question....

WOKE: 8.8 TRAD: 13.44 AUTH: 60%
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It Ends with Us

TRADITIONAL LEAN Film · Theatrical · March 2, 2026

It Ends with Us arrives as two films at war with each other, and the battle behind the camera turned out to be far more interesting than what ended up on screen....

WOKE: 12.18 TRAD: 17.6 AUTH: 62%
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Is Wuthering Heights (2026) Woke? | VirtueVigil Review

WOKE TRAP Film · Theatrical · March 2, 2026

Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights is a bold, frequently beautiful, and ultimately frustrating adaptation of Emily Bronte's novel.…...

WOKE: 20 TRAD: 13.88 AUTH: 38%

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