Movie Review: Origin
I wish more filmmakers were as bold as Ava DuVernay. Since Selma, DuVernay has grown more and more ambitious with her projects, tying modern policing …
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Movie Review: The Color Purple
It was time. Not that I didn’t enjoy Steven Spielberg’s take on Alice Walker’s celebrated novel. But with the success of the musical version of …
Movie Review: King Richard
There are a lot of movie convergences going on in King Richard, all good. It’s a Will Smith movie, and, for the first time in …
Movie Review: If Beale Street Could Talk
Sometimes directors adapting specific writers make so much sense you wish they’d team up more. Michael Lewis’s The Big Short could only have been properly …
Movie Review: The Birth of a Nation
The original Birth of a Nation was America’s first film blockbuster; however, it is now best remembered as a film that romanticized the Ku Klux …