Question for @JesseKGreen @nytimes: Why did you neglect to identify by name a movie reviewer "known for his provocative, idiosyncratic, and often contrarian reviews, which have made him a controversial figure in film criticism"?

 

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Headline:  New York Times, 11/19/2025

Jesse Green reports:

Such casting can be more divisive in movies. DaCosta’s take on Ibsen’s play — the story of a headstrong, amoral Norwegian woman who does monstrous things to protect her privilege — becomes something quite different when Hedda is the queer, illegitimate Black daughter of a white general in 1950s England. Some reviews dismissed the casting completely, one calling it a diversity, equity and inclusion gesture “to flatter progressive Hollywood’s self-righteous delusion of its superior morality.”

Quote in the blog title is straight outta Wikipedia.