The Woman Who Made The Best Basketball Movie Ever Just Made The Best Action Movie Of 2020

Gina Prince-Bythewood, director of Love & Basketball (don’t @ us) and the also incredible, totally different Beyond the Lights, casually became the first Black woman to direct a superhero action movie. But 2020 was supposed to be big: “There were five other female-directed blockbusters. Obviously Patty [with Wonder Woman 1984], there’s Cate Shortland doing Black WidowMulan with Niki Caro, The Eternals with Chloé Zhao, and Cathy Yan’s Birds of Prey. … I hope we can destroy this narrative that women don’t love action, because we do.” – The Atlantic