‘Slanted’ Review: Extreme Makeover Satire Critiques Lopsided Beauty Standards Through Asian Eyes
If high school is a popularity contest — the mistaken-priorities assumption that drives writer-director Amy Wang’s ...
‘Slanted’ Review: Satirical Body Horror About Assimilation and Beauty Engages, but Never Gets Under the Skin
Amy Wang's SXSW winner stars Shirley Chen, McKenna Grace and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan in the story of a young woman who ...
White Privilege Satire ‘Slanted’ and Addiction Industry Exposé ‘Shuffle’ Take Top Awards at SXSW
White Privilege Satire ‘Slanted’ and Addiction Industry Exposé ‘Shuffle’ Take Top Awards at SXSW Film & TV Festival.
SXSW 2025 Awards: Amy Wang’s ‘Slanted’ Wins Narrative Feature Award
The narrative feature jury, which included IndieWire’s own Executive Editor Ryan Lattanzio, also gave Annapurna Sriram’s ...
‘Slanted’ Review: If ‘Mean Girls’ Wasn’t So Funny and ‘The Substance’ Was Way More Blunt
Amy Wang's take on body horror transplants the genre into the hellscape of high school, with grim results that feel more sad ...
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SXSW: ‘Slanted’ Hones In On The Pressure To Assimilate
Amy Wang's directorial debut, Slanted (2025) uses genre storytelling to capture a lived experience that resonates deeply. The ...
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SXSW Film Festival 2025: Forge, Slanted, The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick
It’s clear for her, beauty and acceptance are intimately tied with whiteness. There are other clever moments Wang interlopes ...
Tree crashes into North Bay home while 73-year-old woman was inside
A 73-year-old woman was inside her home as a large eucalyptus tree came crashing down. Now, she has nowhere to go after her ...
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‘Slanted’ Review: Satirical Body Horror About Assimilation and Beauty Engages, but Never Gets Under the Skin
Slanted is blunt, but it could be more biting. The film struggles in a similar manner to many contemporary satires that want to send up and sentimentalize. Slanted starts in 2015 with a young Joan ...
Teeing off at the wildly high-tech future of golf
TGL is a brand-new spin on golf, trying to meld the best of sports with the best of the digital world — including the biggest ...
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Success for ‘Slanted’, ‘I’m The Most Racist Person I Know’ at SXSW Awards
LA-based Chinese-Australian filmmaker Amy Wang and South Australia's Leela Varghese have triumphed in Texas overnight, with ...
SXSW: Amy Wang’s ’Slanted’ Wins Narrative Jury Award
Slanted, directed by Amy Wang, won the grand jury prize in the narrative competition section of the 2025 SXSW Film and TV ...