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Kevin L. Lee

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Kevin L. Lee is an Asian-American critic, producer, screenwriter and director based in New York City. In the summer of 2011, Kevin filmed his first project at Universal Studios on the plane crash set from Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds. He has over 9 years of marketing and writing experience on cinema, ranging from blockbusters to foreign art films, and has developed a reputation of keeping the conversation and film discourse healthy and respectful. Currently, he is pursuing an MFA in film producing at Columbia University and is eager to bring fresh new stories onto the screen.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Anima (2026) 91% B+ EDIT “It’s easy to confuse the narrative restraint in Anima with uneventfulness. It avoids dramatizing a scene and instead opts for a more organic unveiling of hidden emotions.” – AwardsWatch Mar 20, 2026 Full Review They Will Kill You (2026) 79% B+ EDIT “They Will Kill You plays with its satanic premise with gleeful violence and just the right amount of silliness. The result is something straightforward but irresistible. All hail Zazie Beetz.” – AwardsWatch Mar 19, 2026 Full Review Never After Dark (2026) 100% B EDIT “Boyle makes the most out of his singular location, and with a committed and compelling lead, he guides this unique J-horror with a steady hand.” – AwardsWatch Mar 18, 2026 Full Review Pretty Lethal (2026) 64% C EDIT “Everything that surrounds the girls’ circumstances feels uninteresting, from the villains’ political infighting to the tacked-on explanations for character motivations.” – AwardsWatch Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Union County (2026) 97% 7/10 EDIT “It calls to mind films like Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace, where the supporting characters are kind, loving people who genuinely want to help the person who’s struggling, but we come to know that this is bigger than any of them.” – CBR Feb 5, 2026 Full Review zi (2026) 68% C+ EDIT “Kogonada has always been a filmmaker whose warmth has moved me immensely. zi is a step in the right direction aesthetically, but it’s such a shame that when you reach out for something to hold onto, there’s mostly just air.” – AwardsWatch Feb 4, 2026 Full Review Rock Springs (2026) 70% 6/10 EDIT “Though the film takes a while to click and makes a few questionable creative decisions, there is much to be appreciated about Rock Springs and its surprising modern-day relevance.” – CBR Feb 3, 2026 Full Review The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (2026) 100% 8/10 EDIT “Its careful pacing allows the city and its people to breathe, offering small but meaningful surprises along the way. The result is simple, old-fashioned filmmaking that lingers long after the credits roll.” – CBR Feb 3, 2026 Full Review The Weight (2026) 94% 9/10 EDIT “With stunning cinematography by Matteo Cocco, The Weight strikes a careful balance between admiring the beauty of the wilderness and emphasizing its constant, deadly threat.” – CBR Feb 2, 2026 Full Review The Gallerist (2026) 54% 7/10 EDIT “Absurdly funny from the get-go, reminiscent of a South Park episode. It plays off like a deranged runway photoshoot that perfectly accompanies its satirical attitude towards the art world.” – CBR Jan 29, 2026 Full Review undertone (2025) 72% B+ EDIT “Perhaps the biggest achievement in Undertone is the way it "conditions" us to start imagining things that may or may not be there. Tuason fully understands that the audience is capable of freaking themselves out.” – AwardsWatch Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026) 74% C+ EDIT “The crazy part is that even with all the noise and bloated subplots – a main one involves Gail and company being pursued by a mob – it’s remarkable to see how "committed to the bit" the film is.” – AwardsWatch Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Saccharine (2026) 73% C EDIT “What do you get when you mix generational trauma and health wellness and sexual identity and ghosts and cadavers and diet culture and binge eating all in a blender? ” – AwardsWatch Jan 25, 2026 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% B+ EDIT “Fire and Ash is the biggest, heaviest, most epic Avatar film to date. Cameron continues to take big swings at his material, while opening up his world to even more possibilities for future stories. ” – AwardsWatch Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Scarlet (2025) 72% B EDIT “It’s a little rough on its pacing and the thematic message is certainly idealistic to a fault. But it’s also an awe-inspiring fantasy that transcends time and space, life and death, and everything in between.” – AwardsWatch Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Driver's Ed (2025) 80% C EDIT “Driver’s Ed is exactly what you would expect from a Bobby Farrelly teenage comedy — awkward, weird, unfunny, and shockingly tame despite all the swearing, all wrapped around a cozy-looking East Coast aesthetic.” – AwardsWatch Sep 9, 2025 Full Review The Ugly (2024) 55% B+ EDIT “Though the center of the mystery is focused on one woman and her identity on a plot level, the film is very much a portrait of an era, of a culture, and its people. The Ugly is, at its core, a mean-spirited reflection at how mean-spirited people are.” – AwardsWatch Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 71% A- EDIT “Nuremberg isn’t just your average “good enough” historical drama. It’s actually a riveting, powerful warning, spoken with great urgency and desperation for us to heed the call.” – AwardsWatch Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Rental Family (2025) 87% B+ EDIT “Hikari doesn’t shy away from some of the moral thorniness. How do we know that our actions will represent our intentions, when so much of what we feel is deeply internalized instead of being communicated out loud?” – AwardsWatch Sep 7, 2025 Full Review Left-Handed Girl (2025) 98% A- EDIT “Truly, an authentic portrait of contemporary Taipei, its vibrant joys, its imperfections, and all the honest hard-working people trying to get by.” – AwardsWatch Sep 6, 2025 Full Review Exit 8 (2025) 97% B+ EDIT “Exit 8 benefits from having multiple human points of view, as we watch how such a loop can mentally deteriorate someone who is already wrestling with inner turmoil.” – AwardsWatch Sep 5, 2025 Full Review Slanted (2025) 68% EDIT “Slanted does not quite reach compelling highs, but it’s put together with a ton of passion for the subject matter, as you can tell that this story feels largely autobiographical for Amy Wang.” – Film Inquiry Apr 5, 2025 Full Review Death of a Unicorn (2025) 52% EDIT “Essentially the T-Rex family coming to terrorize the family in Saltburn. It’s not as smart or as sharp as it could be, but thankfully Ortega and Rudd keep the story somewhat grounded and there’s enough creature feature tropes to be enjoyed here.” – Film Inquiry Apr 5, 2025 Full Review Drop (2025) 83% EDIT “Landon continues his streak of delivering horror comedies. This is easily the same studio that gave us M3GAN, and you bet that’s a compliment. Frankly, we should be getting ten of these kinds of movies every year.” – Film Inquiry Apr 5, 2025 Full Review The Astronaut (2025) 40% C EDIT “The Astronaut [is] a film with an admittedly unique perspective on the alien subgenre, but sadly takes too long to make its voice heard.” – AwardsWatch Mar 18, 2025 Full Review
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