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Review of Love, Simon (2018)

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

Love, Simon harbors no creatives of color behind the camera, yet Greg Berlanti and writers Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger succeed in tapping…

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Review of Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

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

Avengers: Infinity War is quite funny and entertaining, but it's also an exercise in extreme toxic masculinity…

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Review of Ready Player One (2018)

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

There are literally no creative decision-makers of color who helped bring Ready Player One into being. And it shows…

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Review of Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

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

Ant-Man and the Wasp feeds into a longstanding trope about disability and doesn't even seem to realize it's doing it…

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Review of Blockers (2018)

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

Blockers is silly and fun from the outside, but scratch just beneath the surface of this teen sex comedy and you'll find important messaging…

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Review of A Quiet Place (2018)

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

Reviewers within the deaf community have had both positive and tempered reactions to A Quiet Place, but what I unabashedly appreciate is Krasinski's…

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Review of The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)

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

Every scene of this movie oozes with male fantasy wish fulfillment…

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Review of Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

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

Pacific Rim: Uprising challenges the notion of a leading black man who must appear culturally blank in order to seem 'safe' for non-black audiences…

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Review of A Star Is Born (2018)

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

The movie's gender dynamics remain fully intact from its 1937 origins…

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Review of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

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

Jurassic World is an oddly white world. I say odd, because the films target an international audience…

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Review of A Quiet Place (2016)

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

Reviewers within the deaf community have had both positive and tempered reactions to A Quiet Place, but what I unabashedly appreciate is Krasinski's…

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Review of Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

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

The film's strongest assets are by far the women…

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Review of Ocean's Eight (2018)

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

Actors' performances buoy this otherwise derivative plot, and director Gary Ross knows how to milk it…

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Review of Isle of Dogs (2018)

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

Without wading into the debate over whether or not Isle of Dogs is more appreciation or appropriation, we can observe what little regard Anderson's…

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Review of Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 15 Oct 2018

The character deaths in Solo: A Star Wars Story will leave you feeling angry, as they are unearned and disproportionately affect women…

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Review of BlacKkKlansman (2018)

By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 14 Oct 2018

BlacKkKlansman can be enjoyed by all audiences, but it's especially geared towards white audience members who have never had to live with the…

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Review of The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)

By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 14 Oct 2018

All the creative decision-makers of The Spy Who Dumped Me are white, and it shows…

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Review of Searching (2018)

By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 12 Oct 2018

Usually, the missing or abducted girl is a flat character who gets just a handful of lines, at best. Thankfully, Searching has other ideas…

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Review of To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018)

By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 12 Oct 2018

For those who say To All the Boys is trodden territory, I ask: Trodden territory for who…

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