‘Slanted’ Review: Extreme Makeover Satire Critiques Lopsided Beauty Standards Through Asian Eyes
An immigrant high school student hastily tries an experimental race-changing procedure that allows her to experience life as ...
‘Slanted’ Review: Satirical Body Horror About Assimilation and Beauty Engages, but Never Gets Under the Skin
Amy Wang's SXSW winner stars Shirley Chen, McKenna Grace and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan in the story of a young woman who ...
‘Slanted’ Review: If ‘Mean Girls’ Wasn’t So Funny and ‘The Substance’ Was Way More Blunt
Amy Wang's take on body horror transplants the genre into the hellscape of high school, with grim results that feel more sad ...
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SXSW: ‘Slanted’ Hones In On The Pressure To Assimilate
Amy Wang's directorial debut, Slanted (2025) uses genre storytelling to capture a lived experience that resonates deeply. The ...
Why Amy Wang Chose A Vulnerable, Searing Body Horror Film For Her Directorial Debut With ‘Slanted’ — SXSW Studio
Amy Wang and the cast of her directorial debut Slanted stopped by the Deadline studio at SXSW to discuss the film ...
White Privilege Satire ‘Slanted’ and Addiction Industry Exposé ‘Shuffle’ Take Top Awards at SXSW
Shifting the attention from starry premieres at Austin’s Paramount Theatre to the independent film and TV projects that make ...
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Amy Wang’s dystopian teen film is a thought-provoking debut
Slanted, written and directed by Amy Wang, is a dystopian teen drama where any person of color can have a painless and quick ...
SXSW 2025: Amy Wang’s ‘Slanted’ & Benjamin Flaherty’s ‘Shuffle’ Win Narrative & Documentary Feature Awards
Amy Wang ‘s Slanted, which the jury called an “unflinching satirical thriller” about identity, won the Narrative Feature ...
Shirley Chen and McKenna Grace from ‘Slanted’ use the internet for weird animals
Shirley Chen, McKenna Grace, Fang Du, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Amy Wang and Amelie Zilber came by the L.A. Times studio at the 2025 SXSW Film Festival to talk about their film, “Slanted.” ...
SXSW 2025 Awards: Amy Wang’s ‘Slanted’ Wins Narrative Feature Award
The narrative feature jury, which included IndieWire’s own Executive Editor Ryan Lattanzio, also gave Annapurna Sriram’s ...