‘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: Amy Wang’s ‘Slanted’ & Benjamin Flaherty’s ‘Shuffle’ Win Narrative & Documentary Feature Awards
The South by Southwest Conference and Festivals tonight announced its 2025 Jury and Special Award winners. Amy Wang’s Slanted ...
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 ...
SXSW: Amy Wang's 'Slanted' Wins Narrative Jury Award
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‘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 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 ...
The Hollywood Reporter2d
‘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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
The Austin Chronicle6d
Amy Wang’s dystopian teen film is a thought-provoking debut
Slanted, written and directed by Amy Wang, is a dystopian teen drama where any person of color can have a painless and quick ...