I’m glad Colorlines, via @Katchow, posted this clip of film critic Roger Ebert from 2002. I was going to track it down and post it myself, but they did the work for me.
Ebert attended the screening at Sundance that year for “Better Luck Tomorrow,” the landmark Asian American film that turbocharged the careers of, among others, director Justin Lin and actors such as John Cho and Sung Kang. The dark film turned the “Model Minority” Asian stereotype on its head, by following a group of Southern California Asian American high school students who are not model citizens.
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