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Just before everything went to hell, we had the last Oscars, that feel-good win for
Parasite, and me writing this piece while we were wearing jackets and heating our homes. This year, we go from the Oscars pretty much straight into the summer movie season, and Iâm writing this story while running my A/C. The ceremony this Sunday will have a different vibe, with producer Steven Soderbergh saying it will feel like a movie. (Um, OK.) Theyâll still be giving out the following awards that Iâm handicapping. As always, if my predictions are wrong, Iâll refund you the newsstand price of our paper.
Awkwardly earnest, though not without its bright spots.
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Amy Poehler directs newcomers Hadley Robinson and Nico Hiraga in a Netflix coming-of-age tale inspired by the Riot Grrrl movement.
The premise of Netflix s new teen drama
Moxie of a present-day 11th-grader taking inspiration from her mom’s Riot Grrrl memorabilia to make her school more hospitable for girls through an anonymous feminist zine is at once wholly plausible and a transparent Gen X fantasy of its cultural relevance to Gen Z.
Teenagers today have ready access to more female-forward content and analysis on issues from the relatively trivial to the supremely grave, via any number of publications and platforms than any of them could consume in a lifetime. A smarter movie might have asked why that thriving, glossy, youth-oriented pop-feminist industrial complex (that likely powered the
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