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Calling all TV and film lovers,

This week, Mediaversity Reviews is taking its first trip to Sundance as accredited press! 🎉 With this new access, we'll be able to see what's coming up in diverse filmmaking and get ahead of the curve. (That means you'll be ahead of the curve, too.)

I'll be at Sundance from the 24th to the 28th and would love to meet up with any readers who might be going too. Drop me a line by replying to this email, or DM me on Twitter and let's make it happen.

In the meantime, we’re full steam ahead with our reviews! Check out the latest below.

Watch intelligently,

Li Lai, founder of Mediaversity Reviews

WHAT WE LOVED

Roma

Mediaversity Grade: A 4.83/5

Roma is the full package. Technically astounding, Alfonso Cuarón’s thinly veiled memoir also features the seldom seen narrative of Oaxacan domestic worker, Cleo. Read the review→

WATCH ON NETFLIX

WHAT WE LIKED

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Mediaversity Grade: B 4.00/5

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse represents the latest in a positive trend as Marvel redefines what a superhero looks like. Read the review→

WATCH IT IN THEATERS

WHAT WE SIDE-EYED

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel - Season 2

Mediaversity Grade: D 2.31/5

Nobody’s saying you can’t enjoy The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Lord knows I devoured the new season when it came out last month. But when it comes to inclusiveness, Amy Sherman-Palladino’s show keeps a lot of marginalized communities, well, marginalized. Read the review→

AND I DON'T WANNA MISS A THING

A grades
Settle into the ultra-romantic If Beale Street Could Talk or put on your thinking cap with the complexity of The Hate U Give.

B grades
The Favourite features a royal and lesbian love triangle based on IRL hints (the scandal!), The Haunting of Hill House remains one of my favorite effing shows of 2018, and The Holiday Calendar was cute AF during Christmas.

C grades
Bodyguard paints Indian actors as Middle Eastern terrorists. Derry Girls provides legit laughs against a unique Northern Irish setting. Eighth Grade gave me severe secondhand mortification and in classic horror tradition, Hereditary stokes fear of genderqueer characters.

D grades
But Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, why do we need a 9th film adaptation of an outdated and colonialist story?

F grades
None

INSTA-REACTS

Knee-jerk reactions to the latest on TV or in theaters:

TV

Marvel’s Runaways (Season 2 on Hulu)

Tidying Up with Marie Kondo (Season 1, Episodes 1-2 on Netflix)

Film

Green Book

On the Basis of Sex

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