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Blyss Cleveland

Blyss Cleveland is an Arts & Life staff writer and Screen columnist for Vol. 266. “A Place in the Sun” is one of her favorite movies, but she dislikes the ending.
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A book with text "Great Big Beautiful Life" lies on a green background.

‘Great Big Beautiful Life’ weighs truth versus facts, but skips out on character growth

Blyss Cleveland
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May 15, 2025
Film
To commemorate Mother's Day, The Daily recounts their favorite depictions of motherhood on the screen, in all of its many forms. (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

Our favorite depictions of motherhood on screen

Charlotte Burks, Ellaheh Gohari, Grace Zhao, Kelly Wang, Yinlin Zhao and Blyss Cleveland
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May 14, 2025
Reads
Discover your next great read this spring! (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

Listicle: What’s Stanford reading?

Allie Skalnik, Ellaheh Gohari, Blyss Cleveland, Hana Dao, Kelly Wang, Miriam Awan, Melisa Ezgi Guleryuz and Cate Burtner
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May 7, 2025
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A movie director's sign with gender symbols on it with text "HER POV."

Her POV: ‘Actual People’ chooses to lose post-grad blues

Blyss Cleveland
  •  
May 4, 2025
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A movie director's sign with gender symbols on it with text "HER POV."

Her POV: ‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’ calls to speak ill of the living before they die

Blyss Cleveland
  •  
April 21, 2025
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A movie director's sign with gender symbols on it with text "HER POV."

Her POV: Spotlighting landmark independent films directed by Black women

Blyss Cleveland
  •  
April 3, 2025
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Sterling K. Brown smiling at a VidCon panel

‘Paradise’ is a world stranger than reality

Blyss Cleveland
  •  
Feb. 20, 2025
Music
A Renaissance-esque photo of women sitting.

Love, situationships and everything in between: Songs for Valentine’s Day

Madisyn Cunningham, Joanne dePierre, Ellaheh Gohari, Garrett Khatchaturian, Blyss Cleveland, Ananya Navale and Cate Burtner
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Feb. 13, 2025
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A movie director's sign with gender symbols on it with text "HER POV."

Her POV: ‘The Last Showgirl’ is a moving glimpse of an artist’s journey

Blyss Cleveland
  •  
Feb. 2, 2025
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A movie director's sign with gender symbols on it with text "HER POV."

Her POV: ‘Babygirl’ is all tension with no release

Blyss Cleveland
  •  
Jan. 20, 2025
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A movie director's sign with gender symbols on it with text "HER POV."

Her POV: ‘Madeline’s Madeline’ artfully breaks down the parent-child bond

Blyss Cleveland
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Jan. 12, 2025
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A girl stares up at the camera with the text 'Anora' over her face

‘Anora’ mostly avoids tired tropes about sex work 

Blyss Cleveland
  •  
Nov. 11, 2024
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A movie director's sign with gender symbols on it with text "HER POV."

Her POV: ‘Woman of the Hour’ frames skepticism as a silent killer of women 

Blyss Cleveland
  •  
Oct. 29, 2024
Music
the words "brat remix" backwards on a lime green background

Charli XCX’s ‘Brat’ remix is a completely new return to form

Blyss Cleveland
  •  
Oct. 24, 2024
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A pink outline of a girl with symbols representing girlhood around the outline.

‘Good’ Girlhood: 7 female-focused coming-of-age films

Blyss Cleveland
  •  
Oct. 14, 2024
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A pink outline of a girl with symbols representing girlhood around the outline.

‘We Are Lady Parts’ tunes into the business of art

Blyss Cleveland
  •  
Sept. 30, 2024
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Isabela Merced from the film "Turtles all the Way down" has a worried expression. There are orange scribbles behind her.

‘Turtles All the Way Down’: Thin lines between self-care and self-absorption

Blyss Cleveland
  •  
May 17, 2024
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A pink outline of a girl with symbols representing girlhood around the outline.

‘Good’ girlhood: ‘How to Have Sex’ is about the before and after 

Blyss Cleveland
  •  
May 13, 2024
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Three different still of Zendaya from the film "Challengers"

‘Challengers’ tries to make Stanford sexy again

Blyss Cleveland
  •  
April 30, 2024
Reads
Three books pink, green and blue depicted in a backdrop of a blue sky with flowers and grass at the bottom and yellow butterflies flying on top

Bookworm bulletin: Spring book recommendations

Leyla Yilmaz, Cate Burtner, Miriam Awan, Dan Kubota, Blyss Cleveland and Grace Zhao
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April 26, 2024

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