第七届2021年度学生评论大赛获奖名单

Maeva Andriamanamihaja, age 16, Battlefield High School, Haymarket, Va. : “‘Only Murders in the Building’: An Ingeniously Comedic Take on True Crime Podcasting”

Carolyn Considine, age 17, Acalanes Center for Independent Study, Walnut Creek, Calif.: “This Cookie Will Crumbl”

Edward Simon Cruz, age 16, West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North, Plainsboro, N.J. : “Tonight, Tonight, ‘West Side Story’ Is Full of Light”

Yiyun Hu, age 16, Shanghai Qibao Dwight High School, Shanghai: “Gunpowder: A Symbol of Violence or a Beautiful Ritual for Humankind?”

Colin Kim, age 16, Groton School, Groton, Mass.: “A Little Island With a Not-So-Little Ego”

Brian Li, age 17, West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North, Plainsboro, N.J.: “‘The Melodic Blue’: The Absurd Hues of Baby Keem”

Tina Mai, age 16, St. Margaret’s Episcopal School, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.: “‘Dickinson’: Drunk on Imagination and Unapologetically Feminist”

Jacob Mulliken, age 16, Milton Academy, Milton, Mass.: “‘Entangled’ Trades Activism for Honesty”

Salma Reda, age 16, Jumeirah College, Dubai: “‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’: Ottessa Moshfegh Reckons with Privilege, Beauty, and Ambien”

亚军

Ananya Balaji, age 15, American High School, Fremont, Calif.: “Why Women Can Win: Netflix’s ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’”

Carson Crays, age 16, Carroll Senior High School, Southlake, Texas: “‘Squid Game’: An Exciting Storyline With a Mediocre Ending”

Aryav Desai, age 16, Crystal Springs Uplands School, Hillsborough, Calif.: “‘Bo Burnham: Inside’: No One Laughing in the Background”

Eric: “Blonde: A Modern Masterpiece”

Michael Gan, age 15, Dulwich College Shanghai Pudong, Shanghai: “Ruishilou: Beauty Born Out of Necessity”

Siya Gupta, age 15, Herricks High School, New Hyde Park, N.Y.: “Requiem for a Still Needed Dream”

Momo Horii, age 16, American School in Japan, Tokyo: “Losing Your Voice Through Grammarly”

Sonja Jugo, age 16, Sunset High School, Portland, Ore.: “‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’”: Trope or Trailblazer?”

Yaejoon (Jay) Jung, age 14, North London Collegiate School Jeju, Seogwipo, South Korea: “There Are Bad Shoes and Terrible Shoes. Then You Have the Kobe 4 Protro”

Justin Khim, age 16, Great Neck South High School, Great Neck, N.Y.: “Goodbye, Graphite!”

Angela Ya Xin Lu, age 16, University Hill Secondary School, Vancouver, British Columbia: “‘Never Have I Ever’ … Actually, Yes. I Have.”

Malini Sampath, age 16, Carroll Senior High School, Southlake, Texas: “A Window Into Another World”

Lakshmi Sunder, age 16, Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Houston: “‘The Jasmine Throne’ by Tasha Suri Changed My Perception of What an Indian Woman Can Be”

Zi Wang, age 17, Shanghai Qibao Dwight High School, Shanghai: “‘Blüht und Lügt’: Lost in Colors”

Melody Zhang, age 17, Fremont Christian School, Fremont, Calif.: “‘Wandavision’: A Study in Scarlet”

荣誉奖

Ava Anderson, age 17, Ames High School, Ames, Iowa: “‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’: A Quintessential Work of American Literature”

Matthew Belcrest, age 18, University Liggett School, Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.: “Pearl Jam’s ‘Ten,’ 30 years Later”

Omar Elbadawy, age 13, Birchwood School of Hawken, Cleveland: “Searching for Italy”

Izzy Fruehauf, age 16, University Liggett School, Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.: “A Restaurant Worth Its Weight in Gold”

Wanqing Gao, age 16, Tabor Academy, Marion, Mass.: “Art Basel 2021 Representing the ‘Miami Movement’: A Modern Renaissance”

Maya Gest, age 13, Cedarbrook Middle School, Wyncote, Pa.: “‘1984’: Outdated in Every Way”

Fiona Gu, age 16, YK Pao School, Shanghai: “‘Speak of Me as I Am’: The Way ‘Othello’ Was Meant to Be Seen”

Gage Huff, age 17, West Shore Junior/Senior High School, Melbourne, Fla.: “‘Spencer’: An Intricate Portrait of a Real Woman Seen Only as an Icon”

Ashrita Kollipara, age 16, West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South, West Windsor, N.J.: “Ravishing: The Rose in Fashion: A Creative and Historical Awakening”

Shangqi (Peter) Lin, age 12, United Nations International School, New York, N.Y.: “Minecraft’s 1.18 Update Is the Ultimate Middle School Stress Reliever”

Serena Liu, age 15, Parkway West High School, Ballwin, Mo.: “Mars House: Not Quite Out of This World”

Maya Menon, age 15, Sunset High School, Portland, Maine: “Lana Del Rey’s Verses Versus the Critics: ‘Norman F——— Rockwell!’”

Zach Nish, age 15, Clark Magnet High School, La Crescenta, Calif.: “Long Live the Skate Shoe”

Enya Pinjani, age 17, Carroll Senior High School, Southlake, Texas: “‘Sour’: A Different Take on America’s ‘Teenage Dream’”

Heather Qin, age 15, Ridge High School, Basking Ridge, N.J.: “Daring, Hilarious and Hearty: ‘Gintama,’ a Master Class Deconstruction of Mainstream Anime”

Erin Rasmussen, age 15, St. Mark’s School, Southborough, Mass.: “The Corn Muffins That Changed My Life”

Madison Nicole Rojas, age 17, Mayfield Senior School, Pasadena, Calif.: “Harry Styles in Concert: Spreading Acceptance and Love on Tour”

Poorvi Sarkar, age 17, Glen Ridge High School, Glen Ridge, N.J.: “Never Will I Ever: Toying With Representation”

Nathan Shan, age 16, Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Md.: “‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’: A Modern Take on the Disappointed Dad”

Simon Sidney, age 16, Waynflete School, Portland, Maine: “‘Say That You Were Born Here’: A Review of an Eight-Year-Old ‘Illegal’ Immigrant’s Tale of American Poverty”

Ella Siebentritt-Clark, age 17, Foxcroft School School, Middleburg, Va.: “‘Good Days’: A Reflection on Hope and Happiness”

Caroline Song, age 14, Boston Latin School, Boston: “‘The Untamed’: A Story of Adventure, Defiance and Love”

Sanya Tinaikar, age 16, University Scholars Program — PALCS, Chester County, Penn.: “‘Loving Vincent’: A Fusion of Unparalleled Artwork and Emotion”

Jiarui Wu, age 19, Hwa Chong Institution, Singapore: “‘The Battle at Lake Changjin’: Mere Propaganda?”

Maggie Yao, age 17, Canyon Crest Academy, San Diego: “‘Cats & Soup’ a.k.a. Purr-fection”

感谢所有比赛的评委

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