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Cate Young

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Biography:

Cate Young is a freelance writer and pop culture critic in Trinidad and Tobago who writes about film, television, music, and critical commentary on media representation. Her work deals particularly with the intersection of race, gender and sexuality, and introducing an intersectional analysis to discussions of pop culture. Her writing has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Jezebel, NYLON, Bitch Magazine, and Vulture among others. Cate has a B.A. in Photojournalism from Boston University and a Masters in Mass Communications from the University of Leicester. In 2016, she served as the inaugural Pop Culture Criticism Fellow for Bitch Media, and in 2018, she was invited to attend and cover TIFF as an emerging voice in film criticism as part of the festival's effort to spotlight critics from underrepresented backgrounds through their Share Her Journey venture. She was also accepted to participate in the 7th annual NYFF Critics' Academy that same year.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Marty Supreme (2025) 94% A- EDIT “It’s the relentlessness of his endlessly compounded reckless behaviour that gives the film its magnetic draw. Marty is someone who doesn’t know how to take no for an answer. He is a whirlwind of chaos.” – Thirty, Flirty + Film Dec 20, 2025 Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% B+ EDIT “The entire main cast is a delight, especially Pedro Pascal as Mr. Fantastic. His tightly wound terror about parenthood screams for a Lexapro prescription that may not yet exist in this timeline.” – Thirty, Flirty + Film Dec 19, 2025 Full Review TRON: Ares (2025) 53% A++ EDIT “Silly and indulgent as it is, Tron: Ares truly is a movie of the moment, that engages with our current anxieties around artificial intelligence in a dazzling showcase of tech, music and imagination. ” – Thirty, Flirty + Film Nov 5, 2025 Full Review HIM (2025) 30% EDIT “Him gestures at the vision Tipping wanted to realize and express, but he hasn't quite figured out the kinks. Problems aside, it's a fictive world I'd love to revisit once he's managed to do precisely that.” – Thirty, Flirty + Film Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Sinners (2025) 97% A++ EDIT “Music is the tool we use to access the escape we need to keep going. The Blues are called the blues for a reason.” – Thirty, Flirty + Film Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Wicked (2024) 88% EDIT “Ariana Grande (who plays co-lead Glinda) and Cynthia Erivo (who plays Elphaba) have a dazzling chemistry onscreen that’s hard to miss. You could recommend the movie on the strength of their performances alone. ” – Thirty, Flirty + Film Nov 5, 2025 Full Review The Substance (2024) 89% EDIT “The substance promises much but takes even more. It makes a sick kind of sense that the ramifications of engagement aren’t illuminated until it’s too late to make a difference. Youth is everything. Vanity is vile. How you square the two is up to you.” – Thirty, Flirty + Film Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Seeking Mavis Beacon (2024) 76% EDIT “Seeking Mavins Beacon is less a documentary than it is a meditation on and manifesto for black women. An attempt to firmly root Black woman in the digital world, the film makes it clear that Black women have always been in those spaces. ” – Thirty, Flirty + Film Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Exhibiting Forgiveness (2024) 95% EDIT “Holland’s performance is rage, bluster and grief. Tarrell’s struggle is made viscerally real in his every movement. There’s a vibration that emanates from him and brings his pain dangerously close to the surface.” – Thirty, Flirty + Film Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Veni Vidi Vici (2024) 52% EDIT “It's always a disappointment when a film doesn't stick the landing. A clever premise cleanly executed is all one needs for a good solid onscreen romp. But Veno Vidi Vici doesn’t deliver. ” – Thirty, Flirty + Film Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Daughters (2024) 100% EDIT “It's hard to argue for the cultural merit of a corny dad joke. But in the deeply moving new documentary from directors Angela Patton and Natalie Rae, dad jokes are nothing short of a mark of triumph. ” – Thirty, Flirty + Film Nov 5, 2025 Full Review May December (2023) 91% EDIT “May December is a not-so-subtle pirouette in triplicate. The three leads circle each other like wolves in the night, their emotional triptych fighting for dominance as psychological truths are discovered. ” – Thirty, Flirty + Film Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Bottoms (2023) 91% EDIT “The film’s unrelentingly dry tone contributes to its playfully ridiculous feel — it is at once the thing and a send-up of the thing. Teen sex romps have a formula for a reason. ” – Thirty, Flirty + Film Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Past Lives (2023) 95% EDIT “A first love is a precious thing. And despite the inherent irrationality, it can be hard to let go of the golden sheen that covers a fond memory. But that is precisely what Song guides her characters to achieve in her film. ” – Thirty, Flirty + Film Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Triangle of Sadness (2022) 72% EDIT “Ruben Östlund’s English language debut Triangle of Sadness is not a movie one enjoys. Instead, one tolerates that questionable art still has the right to exist. ” – Thirty, Flirty + Film Nov 5, 2025 Full Review The Fabelmans (2022) 92% EDIT “In some ways, The Fabelmans is a movie about making The Fabelmans. It may seem counterintuitive, but the film is essentially a record of its own existence — a retelling of why Spielberg needed to create stories in the first place. ” – Thirty, Flirty + Film Nov 5, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “There is nothing wrong with a Black female character who is sexual. Scandal, Greenleaf and Being Mary Jane made sure to cover that ground. But sexuality is fraught for Black women too, and it’s clear that PTA did not bother to engage with that reality.” – Thirty, Flirty + Film Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Tár (2022) 91% EDIT “Was she defending Bach, or her own long whispered-about behavior? Is this a tell that her previous and habitual misdeeds have been on her mind? In a way, she tips her hand. No one questioned the merits of the work, merely their relationship to it. ” – Thirty, Flirty + Film Sep 27, 2025 Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 83% EDIT “Highest 2 Lowest is billed as a crime thriller, but for much of the film, it feels like Lee didn’t quite get the memo. What on the surface should be a taut, tension-filled fight to the finish, reads instead as a languid stroll through a mediocre drama.” – Thirty, Flirty + Film Sep 27, 2025 Full Review Top Gun: Maverick (2022) 96% EDIT “"It’s a valid critical interpretation that Top Gun: Maverick is merely propaganda wrapped in a very pretty bow. But boy, that bow is really something."” – Thirty, Flirty + Film Feb 4, 2023 Full Review Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023) 99% EDIT “"With Fox’s help, Guggenheim creates a compelling if perhaps unintentional narrative about the way disabled people are forced to contort themselves into a world that doesn’t accommodate them — and the possibilities that open up for them when it does."” – Thirty, Flirty + Film Jan 27, 2023 Full Review Fair Play (2023) 86% EDIT “"Fair Play is an explosive and audacious debut that earns every second of its tautly wound twist and turns. Domont, who also wrote the film, is clearly a talent to be reckoned with, and Fair Play hints at the exceptional promise to come."” – Thirty, Flirty + Film Jan 27, 2023 Full Review Little Richard: I Am Everything (2023) 94% EDIT “"Little Richard: I Am Everything contextualizes the way he shaped the entire spectrum of rock and roll music. The pioneers of rock and roll were black and queer, and Little Richard was at its zenith."” – Thirty, Flirty + Film Jan 27, 2023 Full Review Polite Society (2023) 91% EDIT “"Polite Society has the same bouncy energy as Manzoor's excellent television show We Are Lady Parts. Her protagonist is self-assured and bold — a worthy addition to the lineage of Indian protagonists Mindy Kaling has made commonplace."” – Thirty, Flirty + Film Jan 27, 2023 Full Review Lizzo: Live in Concert (2022) EDIT “"Lizzo stands in our culture as a figure of radical possibility. Her existence and success is proof positive that the lies replicated about fat people through the media, are in fact lies."” – Thirty, Flirty + Film Jan 23, 2023 Full Review
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