Overcompensating (2025) | How Woke Is It?

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95%

Overcompensating2025

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What We Think

A24’s 'Overcompensating' goes above and beyond in the wokeness department, sacrificing story and tradition in its rush to deliver a sermon. If you’re yearning for narrative subtlety or a diversity of thought, look elsewhere.

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Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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It appears that the central cast was assembled more for ticking every diversity box than for narrative cohesion. Several protagonists have identity traits foregrounded over genuine personality, and their arc progression leans heavily on ideological messaging at the expense of storytelling and depth.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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The film seems intent on lampooning traditional family structures, often mocking religion and masculinity through exaggerated stereotypes. Several plotlines reinterpret core cultural traditions to fit a very modern, progressive worldview, which many viewers could see as undermining foundational values.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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Alternative viewpoints are regularly presented only through caricatured, bigoted antagonists. There’s scarcely a moment where characters genuinely disagree or question the prevailing progressive assumptions, making the worldview feel about as diverse as a San Francisco city council meeting.

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