One thing that should be clarified by reasonable people that I've failed to do from time to time is that it is dumb to diss a movie or television show simply because you don't like the political message.
I mean I don't know what I personally think about The Terminal List because I haven't watched it yet; but, being that almost all of the negative reviews of the show are focused on it being "right wing" and not on the actual craft or storytelling tells me that I'll probably like it -- not because it's right wing but because that seems to be the only criticism.
I think that a lot of film critics are forgetting what their actual jobs are.
If you can't recognize great storytelling and craft because you're so focused on the message, you're not doing your job as a film critic.
I have a pretty strong obsession with Soviet cinema even though most of it is propaganda for one of the most evil regimes in human history. Warren Beatty's film Reds is a masterpiece. 1900 is hardly an exemplar of my political views despite being one of the greatest films I've ever seen. If a critic who isn't a Christian can't see that The Passion was a cinematic achievement, I don't think that he or she is behaving like a film critic -- that was one of the things that made Roger Ebert such a great critic, he judged films for their craft.
Where the messages in films do cross a line and deserve criticism is when the filmmakers turn the movie theater into a pulpit.
The reason why woke storytelling doesn't work isn't because it's a bunch of intersectional, communist drivel. There's been a lot of communist messaging in good movies. It's because they sacrifice character arcs to push it. The live action Mulan film sucked because there was no journey. The last Star Wars trilogy sucked for the same reason -- all we're seeing is a strong, perfect person go on a journey to realize that she was even stronger and more perfect than she had already thought. That's not compelling storytelling.
There are also valid criticisms when protagonists do things that are truly evil and the filmmakers never address it. The thing is, that's also the stuff that the critics are glossing over. I mean, Wonder Woman felt so entitled to have her love interest who died more than half a century prior that she saw nothing wrong with stealing the body of another man and using his body for sex? Your hero raped a guy and the critics seem fine with it.
Still, I think this is telling. It's actually kinda obscene.