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Li Lai

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Li Lai is the founder of Mediaversity Reviews, a website that scores 온라인카지노추천 and films on gender, racial, and LGBTQ inclusion. Onscreen representation is her passion, and she considers art inextricable from its social contexts. For this reason, she values fresh perspectives from underrepresented voices, and her 온라인카지노추천 and film reviews reflect that. Li has been previously featured in Variety, The Verge, CBC Radio, Chicago Tribune, and other outlets. She has also spoken at venues such as Adweek Europe or with the Women's Impact Network of the Producers Guild of America.

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The Wedding Banquet (2025) 88% A “The Wedding Banquet’s abundance of angst reduces the overall impact, leaving a low thrum of emotion rather than the gut punches that explode out of pent-up tension.” – Mediaversity Reviews Apr 17, 2025 Full Review The Penguin Lessons (2024) 80% C- “The Penguin Lessons comes off as well-meaning but wrong-footed.” – Mediaversity Reviews Mar 19, 2025 Full Review Heightened Scrutiny (2025) 92% B “Though Heightened Scrutiny lacks the polish of the filmmakers’ previous film, its urgency overrides that detraction.” – Mediaversity Reviews Jan 29, 2025 Full Review Third Act (2025) 100% B- “Third Act drifts out to sea, hinting at a wide range of topics without drilling down into any.” – Mediaversity Reviews Jan 28, 2025 Full Review Star Trek: Section 31 (2025) 20% D “Disability tropes strongly undercut Star Trek: Section 31’s inclusivity.” – Mediaversity Reviews Jan 23, 2025 Full Review Notice to Quit (2024) B- “It’s not the familiar plot that carries this film but Simon Hacker's bursting love letter to working class New Yorkers in all their brash and unscrupulous swagger.” – Mediaversity Reviews Sep 30, 2024 Full Review My Old Ass (2024) 90% A- “My Old Ass gives a welcome show of solidarity that doesn’t drive wedges between various LGBTQ identities.” – Mediaversity Reviews Sep 27, 2024 Full Review The Last of the Sea Women (2024) 97% A “The divers' lack of healthcare coverage strikes a particularly effective chord, as one of the documentary’s brightest subjects suffers a foot injury that takes her out of commission for a year.” – Mediaversity Reviews Sep 10, 2024 Full Review I'll Be Right There (2024) 86% B+ “I'll Be Right There explores the experience of a queer woman over 60 years old—a group that’s practically invisible in mainstream movies.” – Mediaversity Reviews Aug 27, 2024 Full Review Twisters (2024) 75% B “Twisters delivers on the age-old Hollywood promise: Impressive CGI and American flag-wearing heroes, but slips into some unforced errors on diversity.” – Mediaversity Reviews Jul 19, 2024 Full Review Janet Planet (2023) 85% B+ “Nothing exemplifies the female gaze more than the wary, ever-watchful undercurrent that pervades Janet Planet.” – Mediaversity Reviews Jul 1, 2024 Full Review Tuesday (2023) 76% C+ “There’s nothing wrong with Tuesday’s main actor of color appearing as a bird rather than as a human, but it’s a creative decision that falls into a longer trend.” – Mediaversity Reviews Jun 21, 2024 Full Review The Fall Guy (2024) 82% B- “The Fall Guy easily avoids toxic tropes or obvious stereotypes.” – Mediaversity Reviews May 6, 2024 Full Review Drive-Away Dolls (2024) 63% B+ “Drive-Away Dolls is a great example of what beloved directors can do when they try out new types of characters and identities in their stories.” – Mediaversity Reviews Feb 23, 2024 Full Review Argylle (2024) 33% D “Argylle hypersexualizes most of its female spies and barely remembers to include characters of color, all of them tokenized.” – Mediaversity Reviews Feb 6, 2024 Full Review The Tiger's Apprentice (2024) 51% B “The Tiger's Apprentice needed to build on the shoulders of its forebears, not simply rehash Chinese American tropes and expect the same delight from viewers.” – Mediaversity Reviews Feb 1, 2024 Full Review Queens (Reinas) (2024) 88% A- “Ostensibly about a deadbeat dad trying to get to know his daughters, it’s the relationships between women in Reinas that provide the most satisfying conclusions.” – Mediaversity Reviews Jan 29, 2024 Full Review In the Land of Brothers (2024) 100% B “In the Land of Brothers gives insights into the casually cruel treatment of Hazara Afghan refugees in Iran.” – Mediaversity Reviews Jan 24, 2024 Full Review Brief History of a Family (2024) 92% B- “Brief History of a Family has its misses on the inclusion front, but it's a captivating portrayal of the aftereffects of China's one-child policy. ” – Mediaversity Reviews Jan 21, 2024 Full Review Thelma (2024) 98% B+ “Aging and disability often go hand in hand, and Josh Margolin easily works that fact into Thelma, leveraging it for power and humor.” – Mediaversity Reviews Jan 19, 2024 Full Review Mean Girls (2024) 69% B “Mean Girls takes a benign but superficial approach to diversity.” – Mediaversity Reviews Jan 12, 2024 Full Review American Fiction (2023) 93% B “American Fiction’s small inclusion-related missteps undermine its own thesis.” – Mediaversity Reviews Dec 16, 2023 Full Review Oppenheimer (2023) 93% F “I was uncomfortable watching yet another film about tortured white male genius when the victims of the atrocities glossed over by Oppenheimer had no voice.” – Mediaversity Reviews Dec 3, 2023 Full Review Saltburn (2023) 71% B- “Saltburn toes the blurred line between a positive reclamation of the ‘evil gays’ trend and a negative stereotype.” – Mediaversity Reviews Nov 24, 2023 Full Review The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) 64% B “Despite its racial diversity, the film employs the safe but shallow "colorblind" approach that blunts its positive effects.” – Mediaversity Reviews Nov 19, 2023 Full Review
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