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Day: February 27, 2019

Posted on February 27, 2019February 27, 2019

Hollywood’s Green Book Problem

As a movie, Best Picture winner Green Book was fine, I guess. It’s certainly worth seeing for the performances of Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen in the lead roles, but the fact that Mortensen was considered the lead actor while Ali was the supporting actor is a clue to why this movie is problematic.

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