What if Holdo WAS a just feminist manhater who withheld information from Poe simply because she personally didn’t like him. Does this make it a bad film?
Because this is EXACTLY how the audience is supposed to feel in this situation. Angry that we aren’t being given the information by someone who appears to be the wrong person for the job. Everything about her character design and introduction is supposed to illicit that response.
I’d say it casts the Resistance in a bad light when we should be rooting for it to survive.
It might be one reason why so many people didn’t particularly care what happened by the end of the movie, or what would happen in Episode 9.
(and I think she’s not a feminist manhater, she just made bad decisions)