Hollywood vs. America: 10 Films That Attack Traditional Values

Hollywood has always been ideological. What has changed is the candor. The films on this list do not merely reflect progressive values in passing. They are organized around the dismantling of specific traditional beliefs: the sanctity of marriage, the legitimacy of faith, the value of family continuity, the coherence of sex and gender, and the moral framework that most Americans outside coastal media centers still hold.

This is not a list of films that happen to include progressive characters or diverse casts. Those are table stakes in modern Hollywood and not the subject here. This is a list of films where the attack on traditional values is the point, where the narrative machinery exists to make a specific argument against specific beliefs, and where the Academy, the critics, and the festival circuit rewarded them for it. Every film on this list has been reviewed in full on VirtueVigil using our Weighted Woke Score system. Every score reflects real data from the review, not editorial opinion about quality or artistic merit.

The rankings run from most woke to least by VirtueVigil Score Margin. If you want the full trope-by-trope breakdown, follow the review links. These summaries are the short version of what you need to know before you or your family press play.