It’s not surprising that the top three films are Carol, Call Me By Your Name, and Moonlight in the number one spot-after all, it famously took the Oscar for Best Picture. And because entertainment writing is a field that’s clearly still gendered and bogged down by racial bias, the list is utterly distorted.
Soon after, in somewhat felicitous timing, Rotten Tomatoes released their list of the 150 Best LGBT Movies of All Time, according to critics. newspapers, sites, and broadcast outlets, and found that 77.8% of reviews are authored by men and 82% of critics are white. Released by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, the study recorded 19,599 reviews from U.S. Yesterday the internet was disappointed, though not shocked, by a study which found that most film critics are white and male.
