Americana (2025)

Americana poster

Americana (2025)


Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: High

Viewer Rating
6.1

Overview

When a rare Lakota Ghost Shirt falls into the black market in a small town in South Dakota, the lives of local outsiders and outcasts violently intertwine.


Starring Cast


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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Progressive

Primary

The film's central conflict, involving the black-market theft and desired repatriation of a sacred Lakota Ghost Shirt, inherently engages with themes of cultural appropriation and indigenous rights, aligning with left-leaning concerns despite an empathetic, character-driven narrative.

The movie features a central narrative focused on Native American culture and resistance, with a Native American actor portraying a key leader seeking to reclaim a sacred artifact. Its themes explicitly address cultural and literal theft, providing a critical perspective on historical and ongoing injustices.

Secondary

The film "Americana, 2025" does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters, relationships, subplots, or themes. Available information indicates the narrative centers on a crime thriller involving a Lakota Ghost Shirt and various outsiders, with no noted queer elements in its plot or character descriptions.

Based on all available information, 'Americana' (2025) does not appear to feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The film's narrative focuses on other character arcs and plot points, such as a stuttering waitress, a woman fleeing an abusive relationship, and a veteran cowboy, all clashing over a Lakota Ghost Shirt artifact. Therefore, the film receives an N/A rating for its portrayal of transsexual characters and themes.

Available information for Americana (2025) does not document any scenes where female characters, such as Penny Jo Poplin or Mandy Starr, engage in and are victorious in direct physical combat against one or more male opponents. The plot involves violence, but no specific instances of female characters winning close-quarters physical fights against men are noted.

The film "Americana" features an original ensemble of characters in a new story. There is no information indicating that any character is adapted from prior source material or historical record with a different gender.

All major characters in "Americana, 2025" are original creations for this film, with no prior source material identified. Therefore, no character was canonically, historically, or widely established as one race and then portrayed as a different race.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

6.1

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
5.9
The Movie Database logo
6.3

Critic Ratings

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6.2
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6.1

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