Critiquing some of RogerEbert.com’s more woke reviews

Orrin Konheim
5 min readSep 7, 2021

This is a cursory listing of ways in which the website RogerEbert.com primarily preaches one school of thought through their reviews. That school of thought, whether pejoratively described as woke or generously described as championing identity politics, is not something that many readers and movie fans subscribe to as seen by the comment sections of some of these articles or the differences in Rotten Tomato user scores and critic scores in films where identity politics is an issue.

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Orrin Konheim

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