Wuthering Heights
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WOKE: 35
TRAD: 26
AUTH: 45%
The Devil Wears Prada 2
The Devil Wears Prada 2 arrives as Hollywood's latest bid to repackage 2000s female-empowerment comfort food for the post-#MeToo moment.…...
WOKE: 18.9
TRAD: 19.6
AUTH: 51%
Forbidden Fruits (2026) Movie Review: Is It Woke? | VirtueVigil
There's a store at the Highland Place mall called Free Eden. It sells cupcake-scented candles, charm bracelets, and the kind of overpriced cotton sundress that costs more than your rent. The employees are gorgeous. They have their own slang.…...
WOKE: 27.8
TRAD: 21.2
AUTH: 65%
Blue Beetle
Blue Beetle is the most politically opinionated DC film since Zack Snyder left the franchise, and it is probably the most fun one since Shazam.…...
WOKE: 15.08
TRAD: 8.75
AUTH: 80%
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%
Wonder Woman 1984
Wonder Woman 1984 had the hardest job in superhero cinema: follow up one of the genre's most beloved entries while navigating a global pandemic release. It did not pull it off.…...
WOKE: 18.18
TRAD: 16.3
AUTH: 78%
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Birds of Prey is an interesting film to analyze from a conservative perspective because it makes no pretense of being anything other than what it is: a feminist action comedy designed to feel like a girls' night out at a punk rock concert.…...
WOKE: 23.34
TRAD: 5.05
AUTH: 82%
Us
Jordan Peele's Us has a problem that Get Out didn't have: it's trying to do too many things. Get Out was a scalpel. Us is a Swiss Army knife that doesn't quite close back up properly....
WOKE: 13.14
TRAD: 8.89
AUTH: 88%
Knives Out
Let's start with what Knives Out is, because it is genuinely very good at what it does.…...
WOKE: 13.44
TRAD: 8.05
AUTH: 89%
Avatar: Fire and Ash
James Cameron has now made three Avatar films. Each one is technically extraordinary and ideologically predictable. Fire and Ash is both the best-looking film of 2025 and an almost proud repetition of every idea the franchise put on the table in 2009.…...
WOKE: 21.6
TRAD: 13.4
AUTH: 80%
The White Lotus: Season 3
Mike White's third season of his luxury-resort mortality play takes the show to Thailand, raises the body count's spiritual ambitions, and arrives at roughly the same place the previous two seasons arrived: the rich are hollow, the beautiful destroy …...
WOKE: 19.5
TRAD: 12.8
AUTH: 78%
Bridgerton: Season 4
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%
Toy Story 4
Here is the most charitable reading of Toy Story 4 I can offer: it is a technically brilliant film that makes a catastrophic moral choice in its final fifteen minutes....
WOKE: 17.2
TRAD: 8
AUTH: 80%
Wednesday
Wednesday is the Netflix show that everyone watched. 252 million households in its first 28 days. The most-watched English-language Netflix series at its release. Jenna Ortega as the new Wednesday Addams became a genuine pop-culture moment.…...
WOKE: 16.1
TRAD: 10.64
AUTH: 62%
Clown in a Cornfield
Clown in a Cornfield is a competently made slasher with a clear political agenda that it conceals until past the midpoint and then delivers with zero ambiguity. If you enjoy slasher genre mechanics, the first half delivers them.…...
WOKE: 23
TRAD: 5
AUTH: 25%
The Apprentice
There is something fascinating about The Apprentice, and it is not what its makers intended....
WOKE: 21
TRAD: 6.65
AUTH: 25%
Queer
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%
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Here is what Rian Johnson is very good at: constructing mechanical puzzles. The Glass Onion mystery — Miles Bron's island, his orbit of enablers, the twist about who Janelle Monáe's character actually is — works as clockwork.…...
WOKE: 42
TRAD: 18
AUTH: 55%
Don't Worry Darling
Don't Worry Darling is a film with a beautiful surface and a sermon underneath. Olivia Wilde's second feature arrives packaged as a sexy, sun-drenched psychological thriller with Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, and some of the most luscious 1950s produc…...
WOKE: 21.84
TRAD: 2.7
AUTH: 72%
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is a film about friendship, decency, and the courage it takes to defend democracy against people with money and no conscience. It is also, unfortunately, a mess....
WOKE: 10.49
TRAD: 9.24
AUTH: 61%
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%
Scream VI
Scream VI moves the franchise from Woodsboro to New York City, trades Sidney Prescott for the Carpenter sisters, and delivers exactly what a Scream sequel is supposed to deliver: a satisfying whodunit structure, escalating kill sequences, meta-commen…...
WOKE: 7.4
TRAD: 6.78
AUTH: 70%
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%
American Fiction
American Fiction is the most interesting progressive film of the 2023 season because it is willing to bite the hand it feeds.…...
WOKE: 13.3
TRAD: 5.25
AUTH: 38%
The Wedding Banquet
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%
One of Them Days
One of Them Days is genuinely funny. Keke Palmer and SZA have the kind of chemistry that cannot be manufactured by a casting director - the loose, improvisational, finishing-each-other's-sentences energy of a friendship that reads as real even when t…...
WOKE: 7.18
TRAD: 5
AUTH: 82%
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Across the Spider-Verse is the most technically ambitious animated film ever made. That is not hyperbole. Director Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K.…...
WOKE: 12.59
TRAD: 10.64
AUTH: 46%
Kung Fu Panda 4
Kung Fu Panda 4 is the franchise equivalent of a talented athlete playing a slightly lesser sport: the fundamental skills are on display, the performance is creditable, but something of the original intensity has been traded for management comfort....
WOKE: 10
TRAD: 7
AUTH: 41%
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
Avatar
Avatar is the highest-grossing film in the history of cinema. It made $2.9 billion in its original 2009 release and over $2.3 billion more in its 2022 re-release. More human beings have paid to watch Avatar than any other movie ever made.…...
WOKE: 26.14
TRAD: 13.6
AUTH: N/A
Titanic
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
People We Meet on Vacation
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%
Nickel Boys
RaMell Ross has made a film that does not want you to watch it. It wants you to live inside it....
WOKE: 21.84
TRAD: 8.74
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%
The Ugly Stepsister
Emilie Blichfeldt looked at Cinderella and asked the question nobody wanted answered: what would the ugly stepsister's story actually feel like if you told it honestly? The answer, it turns out, involves tapeworms, butcher knives, and more blood than…...
WOKE: 18.12
TRAD: 11.24
AUTH: N/A
It Was Just an Accident
Jafar Panahi's It Was Just an Accident is a taut, morally complex thriller about former Iranian political prisoners who kidnap a man they believe tortured them in jail.…...
WOKE: 16.59
TRAD: 13.02
AUTH: 92%
KPop Demon Hunters
KPop Demon Hunters is the kind of cultural event that forces you to evaluate it on two entirely separate tracks: as a piece of entertainment, and as a vehicle for ideas. On the first track, it is an unqualified triumph.…...
WOKE: 24.18
TRAD: 16.42
AUTH: 85%
The Bride!
Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! is a film that tells you exactly what it is from the very first frame, and it does not care if you approve. That was true before release, and it is doubly true now that audiences and critics have had their say....
WOKE: 22.1
TRAD: 8.4
AUTH: 10%
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You is one of those films that dares you to look away and then punishes you for trying.…...
WOKE: 15.14
TRAD: 11.42
AUTH: 75%
The Room Next Door
Pedro Almodovar's first English-language film is a meditation on death, friendship, and the right to choose when and how one's life ends.…...
WOKE: 16
TRAD: 12
AUTH: 65%
Emilia Pérez
Jacques Audiard's Emilia Perez is a film that managed the rare feat of uniting both progressive and conservative critics against it while simultaneously earning 13 Oscar nominations - the most for any non-English-language film in Academy history.…...
WOKE: 28
TRAD: 6
AUTH: 40%
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come takes the original's eat-the-rich horror-comedy formula and dials it up to a global conspiracy. Whether that's a feature or a bug depends entirely on how you felt about the first film.…...
WOKE: 16.85
TRAD: 11.2
AUTH: 48%
The Electric State
The Electric State is a $320 million argument that money cannot buy a soul....
WOKE: 13.63
TRAD: 9.52
AUTH: 28%
Adolescence
Adolescence is the most important piece of television produced in 2025, and that's not the same thing as saying it's the best....
WOKE: 22.54
TRAD: 14.76
AUTH: 88%
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
The DCEU died the way it lived: drowning in its own ambition. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom was supposed to be a triumphant send-off for DC's most commercially successful franchise.…...
WOKE: 31.2
TRAD: 18.9
AUTH: 42%
MaXXXine
Ti West's X trilogy ends the way it began - with a woman who refuses to apologize for wanting more.…...
WOKE: 32
TRAD: 14
AUTH: 55%
Babygirl
Babygirl is a well-made, beautifully shot, expertly performed film built around an argument most traditional viewers will find deeply objectionable. It is not a film to dismiss. It is a film to understand before dismissing....
WOKE: 19.22
TRAD: 4.4
AUTH: 35%
Joker: Folie a Deux
Joker: Folie a Deux is a $200 million act of cinematic self-immolation. Todd Phillips took one of the most commercially successful and culturally resonant character studies of the 2010s and produced a sequel that exists primarily to punish its predec…...
WOKE: 24.5
TRAD: 22.13
AUTH: 52%
Madame Web
Madame Web is one of the most comprehensively terrible superhero films ever produced by a major studio.…...
WOKE: 13.42
TRAD: 9.15
AUTH: 38%
Borderlands
Borderlands is what happens when a studio spends $115 million trying to turn a beloved M-rated video game into a PG-13 Guardians of the Galaxy knockoff.…...
WOKE: 17.5
TRAD: 8.26
AUTH: 55%
Mean Girls
Here's the thing about Mean Girls (2024): it's not the culture war flashpoint that either side wants it to be....
WOKE: 15.9
TRAD: 9.6
AUTH: 60%
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: 14.58
TRAD: 10.08
AUTH: 68%
Mulan
Disney's 2020 Mulan is a visually gorgeous but narratively confused film that manages to simultaneously offend fans of the 1998 animated original, Chinese audiences, Western feminists, and human rights advocates.…...
WOKE: 20.78
TRAD: 17.64
AUTH: 58%
Thor: Love and Thunder
Thor: Love and Thunder is a film at war with itself. It contains the raw materials for a genuinely powerful story about grief, faith, and the failure of the gods, but it buries that story under a relentless avalanche of jokes, self-aware comedy, and …...
WOKE: 16.44
TRAD: 12.26
AUTH: 58%
Frozen II
Frozen II is the rare Disney sequel that takes bigger ideological swings than the original, and it connects with roughly half of them.…...
WOKE: 19
TRAD: 14
AUTH: 68%
Cruella
Disney's Cruella is what happens when a studio takes one of its most iconic villains and runs her through the Joker-meets-The-Devil-Wears-Prada sympathy machine.…...
WOKE: 14
TRAD: 12
AUTH: 70%
Speak No Evil
Speak No Evil is one of the most uncomfortable films of 2024. It's a clinical, precise horror film about a man who cannot protect his family because he has spent his adult life outsourcing confrontation to social norms. Deeply effective.…...
WOKE: 9.18
TRAD: 6.78
AUTH: 44%
G20
G20 wants to be Air Force One for the streaming era. The setup is solid: terrorists seize a G20 summit in Cape Town, take world leaders hostage, and the U.S.…...
WOKE: 14.46
TRAD: 7.6
AUTH: 38%
Is Wuthering Heights (2026) Woke? | VirtueVigil Review
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%
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is the MCU's most interesting mess. Sam Raimi brings genuine horror filmmaking to a franchise that desperately needed it, Elizabeth Olsen delivers a villain performance for the ages, and the multiverse conc…...
WOKE: 13.6
TRAD: 10.22
AUTH: 61%
Turning Red
Turning Red is a technically brilliant, emotionally effective Pixar film that is also one of the studio's most ideologically loaded projects.…...
WOKE: 17.85
TRAD: 4.55
AUTH: 72%
Lightyear
Lightyear is a mediocre Pixar film that became a cultural flashpoint for reasons that have almost nothing to do with its quality.…...
WOKE: 10.22
TRAD: 6.65
AUTH: 58%
Eternals
Eternals is the most ambitious and the most divisive film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.…...
WOKE: 19.74
TRAD: 5.95
AUTH: 55%
Wish
Disney's centennial celebration is a fitting monument to everything wrong with modern Disney. Wish is technically competent and thematically empty - a film that cost nearly $200 million and made audiences feel absolutely nothing....
WOKE: 17.45
TRAD: 11.9
AUTH: 58%
Strange World
Strange World is the movie where Disney finally stopped pretending and went full ideological accelerator.…...
WOKE: 27.5
TRAD: 12.32
AUTH: 48%
Black Widow
Black Widow arrives as Natasha Romanoff's belated solo film and the first entry in MCU Phase Four.…...
WOKE: 16.95
TRAD: 12.13
AUTH: 62%
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a film at war with itself. At its best, it's a genuinely moving meditation on grief, loss, and the burden of legacy - anchored by Angela Bassett's towering performance as Queen Ramonda and boosted by Ludwig Goransson…...
WOKE: 18.42
TRAD: 12.67
AUTH: 64%
The Marvels
The Marvels is the film that broke the MCU's aura of commercial invincibility. With a worldwide gross of $206 million against a production budget of $374 million, it represents a loss of over $200 million for Disney and stands as the lowest-grossing …...
WOKE: 22.95
TRAD: 8.87
AUTH: 48%
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania had one job: introduce Kang the Conqueror as the next Thanos-level threat. It failed at everything except the Kang part, and then Jonathan Majors' conviction destroyed even that....
WOKE: 14.57
TRAD: 10.67
AUTH: 52%
Back in Action
Back in Action is exactly what Netflix spent $200 million to make: a perfectly disposable action comedy that will perform huge numbers, entertain audiences for 114 minutes, and be forgotten inside a week....
WOKE: 12.6
TRAD: 10.92
AUTH: 55%
Presence
Presence is the most technically inventive horror film of early 2025. It is also a quietly progressive film wearing an arthouse horror mask....
WOKE: 18.1
TRAD: 8.5
AUTH: 32%
Death of a Unicorn
Let's get the headline out of the way. Yes, Death of a Unicorn has a political lean. It is an anti-capitalist satire wrapped in a creature feature, and it does not try to hide it. The rich people are cartoonishly evil.…...
WOKE: 16.9
TRAD: 12.3
AUTH: 10%
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: 12.6
TRAD: 11.62
AUTH: 41%
The Little Mermaid
The moment the first marketing image dropped, showing Halle Bailey as Ariel, the internet divided cleanly in two. One half celebrated. The other half complained.…...
WOKE: 24.6
TRAD: 12.3
AUTH: 50%
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: 14
TRAD: 10
AUTH: 42%
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
Tim Burton made a sequel to Beetlejuice 36 years after the original, and the result is exactly what you'd expect from a director who has been coasting on his own aesthetic for at least a decade: a film that looks like a Tim Burton movie, sounds like …...
WOKE: 16
TRAD: 12
AUTH: 43%
Wicked: For Good
Wicked: For Good picks up where Part One left off, and the question facing conservative viewers is essentially the same: are you willing to sit through two and a half hours of progressive allegory in exchange for genuinely spectacular filmmaking? Bec…...
WOKE: 8
TRAD: 5
AUTH: 62%
One Battle After Another
Paul Thomas Anderson makes movies for people who love movies. That has always been true. And One Battle After Another might be his most entertaining work, period.…...
WOKE: 10
TRAD: 6
AUTH: 55%
Companion
Companion is a sharper movie than you expect and a more ideologically loaded one than the marketing lets on.…...
WOKE: 7
TRAD: 5
AUTH: 48%
The Housemaid
Let's be honest about what The Housemaid is before we decide whether it's any good.…...
WOKE: 8
TRAD: 5
AUTH: 42%
Predator: Badlands
Dan Trachtenberg clearly loves the Predator franchise. That much is obvious from three films in three years.…...
WOKE: 9
TRAD: 5
AUTH: 35%
Zootopia 2 (2025)
Zootopia 2 is exactly what it looks like. It is a Disney animated buddy cop sequel with gorgeous animation, sharp voice performances, a cracking mystery plot, and a progressive allegory that does not hide behind the fur.…...
WOKE: 91
TRAD: 53
AUTH: 70%
Wuthering Heights (2026)
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights survived 179 years, multiple adaptations, and the entire twentieth century with its reputation intact.…...
WOKE: 36
TRAD: 26
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: 9
TRAD: 8
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: 15
TRAD: 10
AUTH: 65%
The Brutalist
Brady Corbet's The Brutalist is a serious, demanding, three-and-a-half-hour epic that positions itself as a meditation on the American Dream, artistic integrity, and the immigrant experience.…...
WOKE: 9
TRAD: 6
AUTH: 58%
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%
Deadpool & Wolverine
Deadpool & Wolverine is exactly what it advertises itself as: an audacious, frequently profane, nostalgically loaded buddy film that smashes two beloved superhero personas together and dares the audience not to have fun.…...
WOKE: 11
TRAD: 8
AUTH: 64%
Challengers
Challengers is a technically brilliant film and a moral void. Luca Guadagnino is one of the most gifted visual stylists working today, and he brings his full arsenal to this story of a love triangle set across thirteen years of competitive tennis.…...
WOKE: 7
TRAD: 3
AUTH: 32%
Kinds of Kindness
Kinds of Kindness is a nearly three-hour endurance test from Yorgos Lanthimos that systematically dismantles any structure that might give human life meaning.…...
WOKE: 9
TRAD: 2
AUTH: 22%
Civil War
Alex Garland spent years watching political tribalism eat the American conversation, and his response was to make a movie that would give everyone something to hate and something to love.…...
WOKE: 22
TRAD: 18
AUTH: 60%
Monkey Man
Dev Patel spent seven years developing Monkey Man, got a broken nose, multiple injuries, and a Netflix deal that then collapsed. Then Jordan Peele watched the film and made sure it got into theaters.…...
WOKE: 28
TRAD: 14
AUTH: 65%
Love Lies Bleeding
Rose Glass made Saint Maud on a very small budget, got it into A24's catalog, and watched it become a cult film about a woman whose religious intensity crosses into psychosis.…...
WOKE: 26
TRAD: 9
AUTH: 70%
Immaculate
Sydney Sweeney spent years developing Immaculate as a vehicle that would let her operate in the horror genre while carrying a message she clearly believed in.…...
WOKE: 29
TRAD: 8
AUTH: 72%
Lisa Frankenstein
Lisa Frankenstein is Diablo Cody's Jennifer's Body with worse reviews and a better aesthetic. That sentence is both a description and a verdict....
WOKE: 7
TRAD: 2
AUTH: 68%
Wicked
Somewhere between the 400 brand partnerships, the Limited Edition pink-and-green Stanley cups, and the church-group holiday matinees, something got lost in translation. Universal sold Wicked as the feel-good movie event of 2024.…...
WOKE: 28.42
TRAD: 17.44
AUTH: 55%
Ready or Not 2
This preview is based on available trailers, creative team history, and pre-release information. Scores and verdict reflect our prediction only and will be updated upon release....
WOKE: 6
TRAD: 3
AUTH: 48%
Scarpetta
This preview is based on available trailers, creative team history, and pre-release information. Scores and verdict reflect our prediction only and will be updated upon release....
WOKE: 58
TRAD: 42
AUTH: 55%
The Moment
Let's be precise about what this film is: a $4 million mockumentary in which Charli XCX - pop music's reigning progressive icon - produces, co-wrote, and stars in a fictional version of her own real life, distributed by A24, the most ideologically co…...
WOKE: 32
TRAD: 5
AUTH: 88%
Heretic
Let's not dance around it. Heretic is not a horror film that happens to touch on religion.…...
WOKE: 41
TRAD: 14
AUTH: 15%
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: 47
TRAD: 9
AUTH: 78%
Conclave
Edward Berger's Conclave is the most dangerous kind of progressive film: one that is genuinely excellent....
WOKE: 42.6
TRAD: 3.85
AUTH: 10%
Oppenheimer
There's a moment roughly two-thirds through Oppenheimer when J. Robert Oppenheimer - fresh from watching the bomb he built vaporize 80,000 people - stands before a cheering crowd in Los Alamos and tries to look triumphant.…...
WOKE: 30
TRAD: 26
AUTH: 46%
Saltburn
They sold you a gothic aesthetic. They delivered a manifesto wrapped in designer lighting....
WOKE: 35
TRAD: 3
AUTH: 50%
The Substance
Hollywood has always fed on its own. Stars rise, burn bright, and are discarded - usually on a schedule dictated by age, gender, and the appetite of an industry that treats women as decorative objects with expiration dates.…...
WOKE: 37
TRAD: 13
AUTH: 70%
Anora
Hollywood handed its highest honor - Best Picture at the 97th Academy Awards - to a film whose protagonist is a sex worker and exotic dancer, whose marriage to a Russian oligarch's failson disintegrates in real time, and whose director dedicated his …...
WOKE: 36
TRAD: 10
AUTH: 50%
Killers of the Flower Moon
The most disorienting thing about Killers of the Flower Moon is not its three-and-a-half-hour runtime. It is not the murders - dozens of them, deliberate and methodical.…...
WOKE: 19
TRAD: 15
AUTH: 75%
Captain America: Brave New World
Captain America: Brave New World is a Frankenstein's monster of a movie, stitched together from at least three different scripts, multiple rounds of reshoots, and the remnants of a 2008 plotline nobody was asking to resolve.…...
WOKE: 8
TRAD: 5
AUTH: 65%
Snow White
Disney's live-action Snow White arrives carrying more baggage than a royal carriage.…...
WOKE: 9
TRAD: 4
AUTH: 58%
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: 13
TRAD: 8
AUTH: 62%
Ozark
Ozark is genuinely good television. Across its four-season run, it delivered some of the tightest crime-thriller writing on any streaming platform.…...
WOKE: 9
TRAD: 5
AUTH: 64%
Yellowjackets
Yellowjackets arrived with a pitch that practically dared you to watch: a girls' soccer team crashes in the Canadian wilderness, and over nineteen months they descend into tribal violence and cannibalism. Season one delivers on that promise, mostly.…...
WOKE: 8
TRAD: 6
AUTH: 70%
A Minecraft Movie
A Minecraft Movie is not a good film. It is not a particularly bad one either. It is a loud, colorful, expensive screensaver with Jack Black yelling his way through two hours and Jason Momoa trying his hardest to make man-child former arcade champion…...
WOKE: 5
TRAD: 4
AUTH: 68%
Thunderbolts*
Thunderbolts asks you to care about six characters you either forgot existed or could not name at gunpoint. The question is whether it delivers a story worth telling. The answer, with significant reservations, is: sort of....
WOKE: 7
TRAD: 5
AUTH: 66%
Blitz
Steve McQueen's "Blitz" arrives dressed in the clothing of a wartime survival story, the kind of tale that should celebrate British resilience, familial devotion, and the quiet heroism of ordinary people under extraordinary duress.…...
WOKE: 11
TRAD: 7
AUTH: 65%
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
This transcript is a glossy, crowd-pleasing heist fantasy that repeatedly moralizes theft as “justice” and uses modern political talking points as applause lines.…...
WOKE: 18
TRAD: 7
AUTH: 50%
Nightbitch
Nightbitch opens as a character study of maternal exhaustion - a woman losing her identity in the repetitive isolation of full-time parenthood. The performances are grounded. The frustration feels earned.…...
WOKE: 14
TRAD: 0
AUTH: 28%
The Last of Us - Season 2
Season 1 earned enormous trust through grounded storytelling and earned emotional beats. Season 2 leverages that trust to introduce ideological reframing that would not have survived scrutiny if presented upfront.…...
WOKE: 11
TRAD: 3
AUTH: 35%
Severance - Season 2
The anti-corporate themes are structurally embedded and largely organic to the world-building. Some ideological markers are present but remain secondary to genuine narrative ambition.…...
WOKE: 6
TRAD: 4
AUTH: 72%
Butterfly Dreams
Director Dee Rees brings formidable craft and genuine humanity to Butterfly Dreams, a coming-of-age drama about a sixteen-year-old trans girl named Maya who leaves her conservative religious hometown in rural Kentucky to live with her estranged grand…...
WOKE: 18.4
TRAD: 11.2
AUTH: 85%
Opus
For audiences who agree with progressive critique of celebrity, capitalism, complicity: film works. For conservative audiences or those seeking entertainment: film is betrayal dressed in transgression. Woke trap real.…...
WOKE: 8.4
TRAD: 5.1
AUTH: N/A