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Coded Bias

2020

Shalini Kantayya

Documentary, Archive footage: J. Robert Oppenheimer

6.2

139

Documentary Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.

	Author	Review
United States	Angie Han Mashable	"[It] gradually works toward almost inspirational vibe, as Buolamwini and others get to work solving the problem they've identified."	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"[A] fascinating study of how even the seemingly impartial world of technology is subject to embedded racism and privilege."	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"'Coded Bias' serves as both a wake-up call (to invasive practices the public doesn’t yet realize are being implemented) and a call to action."	POS
Canada	Andrew Parker The Gate	"It’s possibly the best and most cautionary look yet at the price human beings are paying for convenience."	POS
United States	John Fink The Film Stage	"Kantayya masterfully takes material that in other hands might become dry and academic and turns it (...) into something that’s actually quite cinematic"	POS
Canada	David Voigt In The Seats	"'Coded Bias' brings up all the right issues that we need to be aware of going forward in dealing with technologies (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"[A] fast-moving, dynamically assembled film — which makes sharp use of classic sci-fi visual concepts and screen graphics to echo its themes"	POS

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