Identitarian casting - at the end of the day, Hollywood is an employer like any other - and representation seem to have overtaken artistic freedom. The movie may or may not be good, but the experience is dampened when the audience is thinking about the off-screen politics.

The other day, for no defensible reason, I watched Peacemaker on HBO. I remember two things. One is John Cena humorously calling his "outfit" a "uniform." The other was that one main character is an overweight gay Black woman. Four identitarian boxes checked in one brilliant piece of casting. Because the character makes no realistic sense, everyone is aware that she is who she is for some reason extraneous to the story.

Sopranos fans want to see how Tony became Tony. They may also, as citizens, be interested in a story about the Newark riots. But bait and switch is still bait and switch. If the trailer misleads, the distributors own the deception. If that criticism is transferred to the movie itself, that's sort of human nature.