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Review of Death Note (2017)

By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 16 Nov 2018

This F-grade review has nothing to do with the whitewashing in Death Note and everything to do with being a walking disaster of a film…

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Review of The Incredible Jessica James (2017)

By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 16 Nov 2018

The Incredible Jessica James actually wields colorblindness in a positive way…

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Review of Dunkirk (2017)

By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 16 Nov 2018

Oblivious at best and propaganda at worst, Dunkirk is admittedly a sensory feast but one that leaves me concerned about its palpable nostalgia…

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Review of Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 16 Nov 2018

Women and people of color exist at the margins of Homecoming, peeking in but never developing corporeal form…

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Review of The Foreigner (2017)

By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 16 Nov 2018

Enjoyable enough, but The Foreigner carries a distinctly Beijing sheen at the expense of Vietnamese erasure…

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Review of Okja (2017)

By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 16 Nov 2018

I didn't enjoy the film, but I am a huge fan of creative risk-taking and inclusive media…

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Review of Lady Bird (2017)

By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 10 Nov 2018

This film champions women, displaying the full range of complicated emotions, untold strengths, and everyday triumphs that are often afforded…

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Review of Wonder (2017)

By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 10 Nov 2018

Wonder makes overt strides to cast with the kind of diversity warranted for a story set in modern-day New York City, but all leading roles…

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Review of Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 10 Nov 2018

When an 83-year old novel is more feminist than its modern film adaptation, you know there's something wrong…

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Review of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)

By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 10 Nov 2018

Women speak for less than 4 minutes in a film that runs 2 hours and 6 minutes long…

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Review of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 10 Nov 2018

In Three Billboards, Black and Hispanic characters come to the rescue of White protagonists yet enjoy no character development of their own…

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Review of Girls Trip (2017)

By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 10 Nov 2018

Watch this movie if you haven't. It's a goddamned national treasure…

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Review of Rough Night (2017)

By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 06 Nov 2018

In its swingiest of hits and misses, Rough Night displays a fantastic same-sex relationship in the same breath as it makes fun of fat people…

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Review of Coco (2017)

By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 06 Nov 2018

Coco may very well be my favorite Pixar film to date. But how does it not pass the Bechdel Test…

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Review of Justice League (2017)

By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 01 Nov 2018

It's alarming that millions of people are watching-and internalizing-this display of toxic masculinity…

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Review of I, Tonya (2017)

By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 01 Nov 2018

I was surprised by the regressive fat shaming in I, Tonya…

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Review of The Beguiled (2017)

By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 01 Nov 2018

The Beguiled provides a wonderful shift in perspective from its male-driven source material, but its blatant whitewashing is hard to overlook…

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Review of Victoria & Abdul (2017)

By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 01 Nov 2018

While Victoria & Abdul does tell the story of an inspiring friendship, it comes wrapped in an odious package of colonialist sentimentality…

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Review of Molly's Game (2017)

By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 01 Nov 2018

Molly's Game takes away Sorkin's biggest Achilles' Heel-writing complex female characters-by basing his story off a woman's autobiography…

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Review of Call Me by Your Name (2017)

By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 01 Nov 2018

Call Me By Your Name has been marketed as a gay romance, yet less overt is its inclusion of Jewish culture…

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