By Shaun Lau. Cross-Posted from The Nerds of Color
Six months and change after
the release of its first trailer -- and therefore about the same amount of time since
co-writer C. Robert Cargill's infamous "[t]he social justice warriors were going to get mad at us for something this week" rebuttal to Asian American critics of the film's whitewashing -- the initial reviews are in for
Doctor Strange, and they're not encouraging.
Oh, the movie? Actually, the critics seem to like it just fine. Being The Nerds of Color, however, we’re interested in looking at a different metric.
Doctor Strange's
whitewashing of primary character The Ancient One was, after all, one of the driving forces behind
the hashtag and rallying cry #whitewashedOUT in May.
So no, this isn’t a review of
Doctor Strange the film, but a review of
the reviews of the film, using a simple standard: how accurately and humanely did each review portray Asian American dissent over the whitewashing of The Ancient One?
