Crazy Rich Asians

http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/08/14/crazy-rich-asians-review

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Crazy Rich Asians has so much rom-com razzle dazzle it practically sings

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Breezy story of a Chinese-American meeting her boyfriend’s extravagantly wealthy family is perfect way to end the summer moviegoing season

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Crazy Rich Asians Is a Breakthrough in Representation. But It’s Also Simply Great Fun

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Constance Wu and newcomer Henry Golding play a young couple in love bedeviled by questions of class, money and family background in the screen adaptation of Kevin Kwan's global best-seller.

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The adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s bestselling novel is both a fun culture clash comedy and a watershed moment for representation in Hollywood

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A high caliber all-Asian cast is reason enough to watch this wonderful adaption of Kevin Kwan’s best-selling novel, but far from the only one

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Crazy Rich Asians is a glossy, globe-trotting trifle — with casting that matters

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That Midas touch with casting extends to the rest of Crazy Rich Asians’ international mélange of actors, who make lasting impressions in parts inevitably abbreviated from the book.

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The filmmakers mine a good deal of satirical humor from their characters’ thirst for extravagance.

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At the core of Jon M. Chu’s romantic comedy, the first movie in decades to tell an Asian-American story with Asians in all the leading roles, is a heartfelt question about family.

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The vigorous cast enlivens the conventional action, and brilliant comedic sallies by Awkwafina, as Rachel’s college friend, and Nico Santos, as Nick’s cousin, knock it for a loop.

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Banking on a nearly all-Asian cast for the first time in big-studio history, Warner Bros. delivers a fresh twist on the princess-movie formula.

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Without betraying any overt nostalgia, Crazy Rich Asians casts a fond eye backward as well as Eastward, conjuring a world defined by hierarchies and prescribed roles in a way that evokes classic novels and films.

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“Crazy Rich Asians” Is the Latest Nonwhite Rom-Com That Basks in and Subverts Old Clichés

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As a movie that has positioned itself as the first in a hypothetical wave of representation, Crazy Rich Asians is blatantly diminished by its status. Such a burden is too much for almost any movie, especially one as intellectually, aesthetically, and sociologically featherweight as this, but its flaws are magnified in the face of its goals.

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