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 senior Joan ...

Slanted starts in 2015 with a young Joan (Kristen Cui) arriving in America with her family and feeling humiliated on the first day of school. After kids make fun of her eyes and mock her lunch ...

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 ...

I couldn’t stop thinking of Schuyler’s novel while watching Amy Wang’s assured directorial debut Slanted. The film ... the prom queen has always been a white blonde with blue eyes. Their photos hang ...

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

Slanted is blunt, but it could be more biting ... of Joan’s world before getting to the twisted heart of this beauty horror. We see how the young woman admires her father but has no patience ...