Is She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022) Woke? | VirtueVigil Review
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is the most openly agenda-driven project Marvel Studios has produced.…...
WOKE: 20.29
TRAD: 2
AUTH: High%
Star Wars
Star Wars is not just a film; it is the proof that a story built on the oldest moral architecture in human civilization can conquer the world.…...
WOKE: 0
TRAD: 23.66
AUTH: 100%
Westworld
Westworld is a tragedy in four acts, and not the one Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy intended.…...
WOKE: 25.28
TRAD: 4.9
AUTH: 68%
The Dog Stars (2026)
Ridley Scott's adaptation of Peter Heller's 2012 novel is the kind of movie Hollywood used to make routinely before it forgot how: a quiet, sun-bleached survival story about a man, his dog, and the question of whether compassion can survive the end o…...
WOKE: 0.85
TRAD: 17.98
AUTH: High%
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Reloaded is the most misunderstood blockbuster of its decade, a film dismissed on release as a hollow special-effects reel that is, in fact, the franchise's most serious meditation on free will.…...
WOKE: 5.39
TRAD: 13.44
AUTH: 74%
The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale is one of the most openly ideological shows ever to reach a mass American audience, and it deserves to be understood as exactly that.…...
WOKE: 30.2
TRAD: 4
AUTH: 76%
The End of Oak Street
The End of Oak Street is a tight, 99-minute family survival thriller that spends its runtime on exactly what the premise demands: parents trying to keep their children alive in an impossible situation.…...
WOKE: 2.35
TRAD: 20
AUTH: 72%
Arrival
There is a genuinely extraordinary film buried inside Arrival. The central mystery, the alien language that rewires the brain's experience of time, and the devastating final revelation about Louise's daughter are among the most emotionally intelligen…...
WOKE: 12.3
TRAD: 9.24
AUTH: 62%
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Marvel Studios delivers its most family-forward film in years with The Fantastic Four: First Steps, a retro-futuristic origin story that skips the origins in favor of a story about what family actually means.…...
WOKE: 1.4
TRAD: 22.54
AUTH: 78%
The Terminator
The Terminator is a film that should not work. Its budget was a fraction of what the premise demanded. Its star was a bodybuilder with a thick Austrian accent cast as a killing machine from the future. Its director had exactly one feature credit.…...
WOKE: 0.35
TRAD: 18.14
AUTH: 97%
The Thing
John Carpenter's The Thing was a commercial failure and critical punching bag in 1982, released two weeks after E.T. and savaged by reviewers who found its nihilism and body horror repellent.…...
WOKE: 0.7
TRAD: 21.56
AUTH: 95%
Severance (Season 1)
Severance Season 1 is the best new television series of 2022 and one of the most thematically ambitious shows of the streaming era.…...
WOKE: 10.82
TRAD: 12.32
AUTH: 78%
Silo (Season 3)
Silo is one of the best dystopian series on television, and its third season is its most structurally ambitious yet.…...
WOKE: 5.32
TRAD: 2.45
AUTH: 67%
Blade Runner
Blade Runner is the rare film whose reputation has grown with each passing decade.…...
WOKE: 4.2
TRAD: 3.5
AUTH: 78%
Venom
The critical consensus on Venom (2018) is well-established: thirty percent on Rotten Tomatoes, a thirty-five on Metacritic, reviews that use words like 'incoherent' and 'generic.' The audience consensus is different: eighty percent audience score, $8…...
WOKE: 5.68
TRAD: 11.76
AUTH: 67%
Alien: Earth
The Alien franchise has been waiting for someone to bring the xenomorph to Earth in a serious way since at least the 1990s. Two Alien vs. Predator films tried and largely failed.…...
WOKE: 11.18
TRAD: 13.92
AUTH: 55%
Disclosure Day
Disclosure Day is Steven Spielberg's return to science fiction spectacle, but thirty years into his career, he is a different filmmaker than the man who made Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The wonder remains.…...
WOKE: 43.12
TRAD: 20.44
AUTH: 68%
Alien
Alien is 47 years old and it still works. That says something about the quality of its construction....
WOKE: 7.74
TRAD: 16.38
AUTH: 68%
Predator
Predator is 107 minutes of genre filmmaking executed at an extremely high level. It is also, quietly, a film that has gotten more interesting over the decades as the culture around it has shifted....
WOKE: 1.4
TRAD: 18.48
AUTH: 93%
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Let's start where the film earns its credibility....
WOKE: 3.85
TRAD: 18.34
AUTH: 75%
Prey
Prey is the best Predator film since the 1987 original. That's not a low bar at this point.…...
WOKE: 10.92
TRAD: 18.34
AUTH: 63%
Supergirl
Tom King wrote Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow in 2021 and 2022, and it won Eisner Awards and generated exactly two kinds of response: progressive critics calling it a feminist masterpiece and traditional fans asking why their character had been replace…...
WOKE: 12.92
TRAD: 8.26
AUTH: 38%
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Terminator 2 is not a film that needs defending. It is one of the most successful action films ever made, technically brilliant, emotionally devastating, and built on a moral framework that is, at its core, about the most traditional value there is: …...
WOKE: 5.32
TRAD: 19.74
AUTH: 79%
A Different Man
A Different Man is a film about male entitlement, romantic rejection, and violent revenge disguised as an indie character study about self-acceptance and social anxiety.…...
WOKE: 17.56
TRAD: 0
AUTH: 51%
The Blue Trail
There are films that earn their politics and films that perform them. The Blue Trail earns every frame....
WOKE: 1.35
TRAD: 21.84
AUTH: 88%
Fallout - Season 2
Fallout Season 2 is competent prestige television that can't quite escape its own contradictions....
WOKE: 9.89
TRAD: 4.9
AUTH: 40%
Project Hail Mary (2026)
Project Hail Mary opens with a man waking up alone on a spacecraft with no memory of who he is or why he is there. It ends with him choosing to stay, alone, in a distant solar system, because someone else needs him more than Earth does.…...
WOKE: 6.05
TRAD: 26.88
AUTH: 93%
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. is one of the few films where the word 'masterpiece' is not an overstatement.…...
WOKE: 2.5
TRAD: 22.96
AUTH: 96%
The Creator
The Creator is a genuinely beautiful film with a genuinely bad politics problem....
WOKE: 35.88
TRAD: 4.9
AUTH: 12%
The Matrix Resurrections
The Matrix Resurrections is a fascinating failure. By which I mean: it fails as a blockbuster sequel, it fails as an action film, it partially fails as a story, and yet it succeeds as a piece of cinema that forces genuine engagement.…...
WOKE: 15.05
TRAD: 8.75
AUTH: 78%
Tenet
Tenet is the easiest film on this list to analyze from a conservative perspective: it has essentially no ideology.…...
WOKE: 1.5
TRAD: 17.23
AUTH: 95%
Dune: Part One
Dune: Part One is the rare epic blockbuster that takes itself seriously without becoming self-important. Denis Villeneuve spent years fighting to get this film made his way, and the result earns every frame of its 155-minute runtime.…...
WOKE: 7.1
TRAD: 20.02
AUTH: 88%
The Matrix
The Matrix is the most politically contested movie in VirtueVigil history, not because it is propaganda but because everybody wants to own it....
WOKE: 6.83
TRAD: 14.28
AUTH: 91%
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Haymitch Abernathy has been one of cinema's great unexplained characters since Woody Harrelson stumbled through the original Hunger Games films as the perpetually drunk, permanently haunted mentor from District 12.…...
WOKE: 6.1
TRAD: 13.23
AUTH: 80%
Jurassic Park
There is a moment in Jurassic Park that I have never fully recovered from. Alan Grant is sitting in a tree with two children he barely knows, watching a brachiosaurus eat leaves in the moonlight.…...
WOKE: 5.2
TRAD: 9.94
AUTH: 85%
Nope
Jordan Peele's third film is his most formally ambitious and his most politically restrained, which may be why it polarized audiences in ways his earlier work didn't.…...
WOKE: 6.66
TRAD: 20.79
AUTH: 70%
Tron: Ares
Tron: Ares cost Disney between $180 and $220 million to make and grossed $142 million worldwide. That is not a small disaster.…...
WOKE: 11
TRAD: 5.6
AUTH: 40%
Atlas
Atlas is the kind of movie you watch on a Sunday afternoon with no expectations and find yourself mildly entertained.…...
WOKE: 12.2
TRAD: 10.82
AUTH: 58%
M3GAN 2.0
M3GAN 2.0 is a film at war with itself. The original M3GAN (2022) worked because Gerard Johnstone understood exactly what he was making: a Blumhouse horror-comedy about an AI doll whose protective programming lacked any ethical guardrails.…...
WOKE: 8.92
TRAD: 10.82
AUTH: 68%
M3GAN
M3GAN became a cultural phenomenon in January 2023. The viral dance clip. The meme economy. The gay icon discourse. The TikTok explosion. None of that tells you anything about what the film actually argues....
WOKE: 7.8
TRAD: 14.98
AUTH: 82%
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is a much better film than its critics want to admit, and a more thoughtful one than its marketing suggests. Director Steven Caple Jr.…...
WOKE: 8.6
TRAD: 17.01
AUTH: 82%
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games arrived in 2012 with a premise that seemed designed to alienate half its potential audience: a female protagonist, a dystopian critique of entertainment culture and government control, and a story where children kill each other as st…...
WOKE: 9.8
TRAD: 12.6
AUTH: N/A
The Flash
The Flash is a film that should not exist, barely does exist, and yet contains some of the best superhero filmmaking of 2023 embedded inside the most troubled production in DC history.…...
WOKE: 9.8
TRAD: 11.48
AUTH: 72%
Interstellar
Interstellar is Christopher Nolan's most emotionally direct film. Where Inception hides its heart inside puzzle boxes, Interstellar puts its heart on the table in the first ten minutes and then spends three hours testing it.…...
WOKE: 7.72
TRAD: 23.16
AUTH: 88%
Inception
Christopher Nolan spent ten years writing Inception. It shows. This is one of the most structurally ambitious mainstream films ever produced: a heist story operating across five simultaneous dream levels, each with its own physics, each with its own …...
WOKE: 2.9
TRAD: 20.44
AUTH: 92%
Guardians of the Galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy is one of the most purely enjoyable films the MCU ever produced, and by our scoring system it is also one of the most traditionally coded. The margin is not close.…...
WOKE: 5.82
TRAD: 21.28
AUTH: 92%
Captain Marvel
Captain Marvel is the MCU's most deliberately ideological film, and the filmmakers would not dispute this.…...
WOKE: 19.44
TRAD: 3.25
AUTH: N/A
Dune: Part Three
Denis Villeneuve completes his Dune trilogy with a film that is simultaneously his most visually ambitious and most explicitly ideological.…...
WOKE: 0
TRAD: 12
AUTH: 92%
Avengers: Endgame
Avengers: Endgame is the highest-grossing film of all time (adjusted for inflation).…...
WOKE: 10.54
TRAD: 13.65
AUTH: N/A
Bugonia
Yorgos Lanthimos's Bugonia is a skillfully made, darkly funny, and ultimately nihilistic black comedy thriller that wraps a radical anti-capitalist, environmentalist manifesto inside a genre-bending alien conspiracy kidnapping story.…...
WOKE: 28.94
TRAD: 8.48
AUTH: 62%
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Spider-Man: No Way Home is not just the best Spider-Man film ever made. It is one of the most emotionally devastating blockbusters of the decade, and it earned every tear....
WOKE: 3.5
TRAD: 22.05
AUTH: 50%
War Machine
War Machine is a glorious throwback to the testosterone-fueled sci-fi action films of the 1980s and 1990s, and it does not apologize for it.…...
WOKE: 1.68
TRAD: 28.2
AUTH: 72%
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Let's get this out of the way: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is not a film you watch for the story.…...
WOKE: 2.1
TRAD: 15.68
AUTH: 78%
Captain America: Brave New World
Captain America: Brave New World is a deeply confused film that cannot decide whether it wants to be a political thriller, a superhero spectacle, or a meditation on race in America. It tries to be all three and succeeds fully at none of them.…...
WOKE: 19.04
TRAD: 22.78
AUTH: 68%
Eternals
Eternals is the most ambitious and the most divisive film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.…...
WOKE: 19.74
TRAD: 5.95
AUTH: 55%
Greenland 2: Migration
Greenland 2: Migration is a deeply traditional film wearing the clothes of a post-apocalyptic thriller.…...
WOKE: 5.05
TRAD: 18.62
AUTH: 70%
A Quiet Place: Day One
A Quiet Place: Day One is a frustrating film to score because it's genuinely well-made and carries real emotional weight, right up until you look at what it's actually saying....
WOKE: 10.8
TRAD: 11.69
AUTH: 41%
Jurassic World Rebirth
Jurassic World Rebirth is a $200 million movie that feels like it was written on a napkin during a studio lunch meeting.…...
WOKE: 13.86
TRAD: 9.05
AUTH: 42%
Mercy (2026)
Timur Bekmambetov's Mercy arrives with a killer premise and proceeds to do almost nothing interesting with it.…...
WOKE: 15.75
TRAD: 44
AUTH: 72%
Dune: Part Two
Dune: Part Two is a cinematic achievement of genuine rarity. A sequel that expands the scale, deepens the craft, and improves on its predecessor at nearly every technical level.…...
WOKE: 19.36
TRAD: 11.55
AUTH: 72%
Companion
Companion is a sharper movie than you expect and a more ideologically loaded one than the marketing lets on.…...
WOKE: 19.5
TRAD: 10.5
AUTH: 48%
Black Mirror - Season 7
Black Mirror returns for its seventh season with six new episodes that collectively demonstrate both why the show has endured and why it has never been fully co-opted by any one ideological tendency.…...
WOKE: 7.2
TRAD: 8.4
AUTH: 55%
Andor - Season 2
Andor Season 2 is probably the finest piece of television Disney has produced under the Star Wars banner - and it is, without reservation, the most explicitly political. These two facts are related.…...
WOKE: 11.4
TRAD: 10.5
AUTH: 65%
Poor Things
Hollywood has always loved a metaphor. But rarely has the industry deployed one this nakedly, or this aggressively, and then handed it four Oscars.…...
WOKE: 46.5
TRAD: 9.38
AUTH: 78%
Paradise - Season 2
Dan Fogelman built his reputation on This Is Us - a show that knew exactly how to make you cry, that understood emotional architecture with almost clinical precision, and that often used that precision in service of specific progressive narratives ab…...
WOKE: 14.1
TRAD: 9.3
AUTH: 68%
Stranger Things
There was a time when Stranger Things felt like a miracle. In the summer of 2016, Netflix dropped this weird little show about a missing kid in small-town Indiana, and it captured something audiences had been starving for.…...
WOKE: 34.5
TRAD: 16.8
AUTH: 62%