Excerpt from article by Remezcla staff:
Hollywood is a (white) boys’ club, and so is film criticism. Nowhere is this more evident than in the multitude of reviews published about Pixar’s Coco. The majority of critics have been positive in their remarks about the animated feature, but many lack the cultural competence to discuss the most Mexican aspects of the film. From calling Cocoinauthentic to misspelling words in Spanish, the stockpile of opinions disseminated by major media sites has one glaring omission – not one of them is penned by a Latino writer.
Here at Remezcla we don’t normally publish film reviews, but this felt like a watershed moment. Someone needed to step in and uplift the voices of Latino film critics. It’s about time mainstream outlets started paying attention to our opinions since in Pixar’s Coco its our culture that’s being showcased. Below you will find capsule reviews written by five Latino film critics. Read them, share them, and follow the writers. They need our support to break through the noise.
UPDATE 11/22/2017: Today’s print edition of the San Francisco Chronicle will run a review of Coco written by pop culture critic Peter Hartlaub. He is 3rd-generation Mexican on his mother’s side. The same piece was published online a week ago. This brings the grand total of reviews written by Latino critics in major publications to one.
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