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January 7, 2022
It's always a little suspect when too much is made of a big action movie being “female-fronted.” Unfortunately, Hollywood has decided lately that in course correcting for decades of gender inequity in certain genres that it's not enough to just make an action-packed movie starring more than one woman: They must let the audience know that they know that this is A Girl Power Moment. And frankly, whether it's the lady Avengers assembling in “Infinity War,” a montage of Girls Doing Sports and Science in the latest “Charlie's Angels,” or all of “Ocean's 8,” it's never not insulting to its purported audience.
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