In order to maintain her image, Jo must literally peel bits of her skin off. Slanted edges into body horror as the teen’s anguish subsumes her. She becomes so preoccupied with hiding her molting ...

If high school is a popularity contest — the mistaken-priorities assumption that drives writer-director Amy Wang’s SXSW-winning assimilation satire “Slanted” — then Chinese American ...

A dark, poignant satire about assimilation and female beauty standards, Slanted stars Shirley Chen ... biting commentary and body-horror is sometimes awkward, but always thoughtful.

In this town, the prom queen has always been a white blonde with blue eyes ... of the latter. Slanted will inevitably draw ...

In this town, the prom queen has always been a white blonde with blue eyes ... with body horror. She explores immigration and assimilation, meditating on how the alienation of the former makes way for ...