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Emilia PérezYear: 2024Rating: RLength: 132 minutes / 2.20 hours I know it takes some time for certain themes to work their way through the cinematic zeitgeist so that they are more accepted by the public. For a decade or more, Best Picture nominated films pushed LGBTQ+ ideas that were meant to be shocking to the cis-white majority of Americans. That controversy has died down, but with the current political landscape pushing anti-trans (the “T” in LGBTQ+) rhetoric, it was only a matter of time until it once again had the spotlight. Unfortunately, Emilia Pérez (2024) feels like a tone-deaf compromise that feeds off negative stereotypes of trans people and Latinos. While I’ll admit that a crime lord changing genders to escape heat from the authorities is a unique take for a plot, it emphasizes the idea that people only change genders so they can escape consequences or get a pass to do bad things (like assault women in bathrooms). The bigger problem...