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Lyvie Scott

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Biography:

Lyvie Scott is an Atlanta-based writer with a passion for minority-centered stories. She cut her teeth in fandom spaces all across the internet, and has since found a way to funnel that niche knowledge into her professional work. She feels most at home when dissecting entertainment through an analytical lens. No topic is too silly — and her writing strives to elevate perspectives that are notoriously overlooked.

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Movies TV Shows
Send Help (2026) 94% EDIT “It’s been 16 years since the director has delivered a straightforward horror, and he brings the full weight of his trademark, gonzo gore to bear here.” – Inverse Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) 16% EDIT “A premise so thin and airless that it seems to be saying both everything and nothing.” – Inverse Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% EDIT “There’s not much higher to go once you’ve defied gravity, but Erivo, Grande, and Chu at least give the characters and this world a soft landing.” – Inverse Nov 18, 2025 Full Review Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) 60% EDIT “It’s just as corny, far-fetched, and chaotic as the films that precede it, with a dizzying plot that makes less sense the more you think about it. But those who found anything to love in this franchise before know not to analyze this caper too closely.” – Inverse Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Lesbian Space Princess (2025) 98% EDIT “A surprisingly sweet, bracingly funny, and unapologetically queer remix of the traditional space adventure — though Lesbian Space Princess also tries a little too hard to revive a bygone era of animation.” – Inverse Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Hedda (2025) 89% EDIT “Thompson and DaCosta ratchet up the tension of a story that already feels like a pressure cooker, turning Hedda the film into a diabolical psychological thriller, and launching Hedda the character into the pantheon of the monstrous feminine.” – Inverse Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Exit 8 (2025) 97% EDIT “It’s a stirring, surprising work, one that explores its premise so thoroughly and intimately, it’s easy to forget how simple a story it’s telling.” – Inverse Oct 16, 2025 Full Review Good Fortune (2025) 78% EDIT “Ansari’s debut is equal parts Trading Places and It’s A Wonderful Life, but it functions best as a 21st-century riff on the former. ” – Inverse Oct 16, 2025 Full Review Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) 95% EDIT “'Good Luck, Have Fun' wants us to question everything, to shake us awake from our own simulation — and on that front, at least, it succeeds.” – Inverse Oct 8, 2025 Full Review HIM (2025) 30% EDIT “HIM is not the next Get Out, much as it might dress itself up to be. That it’s got all the subtlety of a bludgeon to the head is just the first of its many flaws; not even Peele can turn this messy Mad Libs horror into a true statement of intent.” – Inverse Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Arco (2025) 91% EDIT “At just 88 minutes, Arco moves at a brisk pace, leaving little room for deeper, more intricate storytelling — much as it may need it.” – Inverse Sep 17, 2025 Full Review Sacrifice (2025) 38% EDIT “Sacrifice, like so many class-conscious thrillers of its ilk, is both timely and hysterical, but it’s also more earnest than any “eat the rich” story that’s premiered of late.” – Inverse Sep 17, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “While this murder mystery is a little messier than those that came before, it has something those films occasionally lacked: conviction.” – Inverse Sep 12, 2025 Full Review The Long Walk (2025) 88% EDIT “With masterful direction, heart-wrenching performances, and a harrowing survival tale in perpetual motion, 'The Long Walk' smoothly snatches back its legacy as the king of the dystopian fable.” – Inverse Sep 2, 2025 Full Review Caught Stealing (2025) 85% EDIT “Caught Stealing is just as chaotic and cruel as [Aronofsky's] past efforts, sometimes to its detriment, but it keeps its foot on the gas with enough determination to distract and, eventually, delight.” – Inverse Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% EDIT “'Weapons' is as haunting and cerebral as it is almost cartoonishly funny, producing a cocktail of emotions nearly as disarming as the film itself.” – Inverse Jul 29, 2025 Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% EDIT “'First Steps' is Marvel's defibrillator — the straightforward, no-fuss shock of life that won’t just revive a dying franchise, but bring it back to the foundations it’s long dismissed.” – Inverse Jul 22, 2025 Full Review The Old Guard 2 (2025) 27% EDIT “Theron leads the film with her trademark, go-for-broke intensity, and she has incredible chemistry with everyone — but a weak villain with flimsy motivation keeps this triumphant return from sticking its landing.” – Inverse Jul 2, 2025 Full Review KPop Demon Hunters (2025) 92% EDIT “Kang and Appelhans create a nuanced portrait of the industry through a supernatural lens, bolstering its story with laugh-out-loud humor, gorgeously rendered animation, and heartfelt emotional dynamics.” – Inverse Jun 27, 2025 Full Review F1 The Movie (2025) 82% EDIT “[F1] plows over any meaningful character work in favor of falsely earnest hero moments for Pitt. But all that mess is easy to forgive (or, at least, forget) when our heroes just shut up and drive.” – Inverse Jun 17, 2025 Full Review Dangerous Animals (2025) 87% EDIT “A sharksploitation thriller for the ages.” – Inverse May 30, 2025 Full Review Fountain of Youth (2025) 35% EDIT “A balanced and endlessly entertaining adventure — one of the best we’ve had in years, and Ritchie’s strongest in a long while.” – Inverse May 22, 2025 Full Review Lilo & Stitch (2025) 72% EDIT “Lilo & Stitch is sanitized beyond recognition. Its most iconic lines remain, but what was once a difficult, even adult story is handled with kiddie gloves here.” – Inverse May 20, 2025 Full Review Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025) 14% EDIT “Simply a slog. The film revels in Tesfaye’s pop star-coded anguish, relying on a perpetually spinning camera, blindsiding strobe effects, and a gauntlet of substance abuse to simulate the kind of surreal fantasy we’ve seen in other, far better films.” – Inverse May 16, 2025 Full Review Until Dawn (2025) 52% EDIT “Throws plot out the window in favor of gore and schlock. [Using] a time-loop conceit to replicate the feeling of respawning in a video game, it gives director David F. Sandberg an excuse to blitz through as many teen horror tropes as can fit in two hours.” – Inverse Apr 24, 2025 Full Review
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