Test Drive (2017)
“Taken as a melange of moments, Good Trouble is a broad piece of fan service, capturing many truths in passing but critically engaging none.” –
REELYDOPE
Jul 13, 2023
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John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020)
94%
“Taken as a melange of moments, Good Trouble is a broad piece of fan service, capturing many truths in passing but critically engaging none.” –
REELYDOPE
Mar 5, 2021
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Fatal Affair (2020)
19%
“Fatal Affair keeps the nightmares on-screen, making at least some of the danger we're living with digestible and even enjoyable.” –
REELYDOPE
Mar 4, 2021
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Residue (2020)
94%
9/10
“Residue is a delicately balanced film that lands its points while exploring these conversations from angles that are often unseen.” –
Film Threat
Feb 28, 2020
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Parasite (2019)
99%
“Parasite ups the ante by presenting the (sometimes literal) moral depths of the dream of class mobility.” –
REELYDOPE
Dec 4, 2019
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A Violent Man (2017)
40%
“... the film is still a worthy installment in the neo-noir cannon, if only for its pursuit of a story that isn't styled after Harmony Korine's particular brand of "chaos in paradise" narratives in America's southeastern corridor.” –
REELYDOPE
Nov 6, 2019
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Wrestle (2018)
100%
“In its sobering conclusions, Wrestle has us question how much we undervalue poor children's lives, circumstances and education in this country.” –
REELYDOPE
Feb 28, 2019
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Honey Boy (2019)
95%
“Where LaBeouf's deeply personal story provides the framework, Alma Har'el's direction ensures the film has a classic, empathic quality that rises above simple tearjerker status.” –
REELYDOPE
Feb 25, 2019
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Native Son (2019)
62%
“Johnson's debut-buoyed by Parks' interpolation between adaption and rewriting Bigger's life-is a new direction to present story and emotion in their most visceral and affecting forms.” –
REELYDOPE
Feb 20, 2019
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The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
93%
“What I've seen, and what I'm pretty sure will come to other viewers, is a film whose brightest moments do the unforgiving work of carrying its weakest elements.” –
REELYDOPE
Feb 19, 2019
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Selah and the Spades (2019)
87%
“Selah and The Spades powerfully gives voice to a form of unlikeable black girlhood, allowing Selah and her peers to be human, even if that means being shitty.” –
REELYDOPE
Feb 19, 2019
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Sweetheart (2019)
95%
“Sweetheart is almost akin to traditional sushi; by paring down the monster movie to its best elements, viewers will find the film to be as refreshing as it is momentary.” –
REELYDOPE
Feb 8, 2019
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Time for Ilhan (2018)
94%
“Despite all these thematic overtures, and a late-act scandal that could've been pulled directly from, well, Scandal, Time for Ilhan is peculiar in that it's underwhelming.” –
Shadow and Act
Jan 28, 2019
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Venom (2018)
31%
“If nothing else, it's a mostly fun monster movie that proves Tom Hardy can put on any mask and shine through.” –
REELYDOPE
Jan 22, 2019
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If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
95%
“By refusing to excise Baldwin's vision from the script, Jenkins & co have built a dialogue with an ancestor, proving the resonance of his words in a modern world while affirming the value and future of a black love everlasting, evermore.” –
REELYDOPE
Jan 22, 2019
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Shoplifters (2018)
99%
“If Satoshi Kon's Tokyo Godfathers pursued the 'lost, and then found child' narrative for general heartwarming effect, Shoplifters pivots into darker, more subtle territory.” –
REELYDOPE
Jan 22, 2019
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
97%
“It's the kind of pure storytelling that's often lost in a maelstrom of special effects, villains, hype and hoopla. But clearly, when it's done right, it can be as enjoyable as it is truthful, to reality and the comic book canon.” –
Shadow and Act
Dec 14, 2018
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Monster Party (2018)
77%
7/10
“While it's not engrossing in some well-heeled, Oscar-winning vote way, Monster Party knows its playbook and delivers in record time.” –
Film Threat
Nov 9, 2018
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
98%
10/10
“Can You Ever Forgive Me? is truly a tribute to the complexity, depth and bittersweet hues of humanity, as understood from the position of two older, queer people.” –
Film Threat
Oct 18, 2018
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Widows (2018)
91%
10/10
“Widows reinvigorates a story form with a new telling, modern context, and culturally relevant moments that prove the immediacy of these narratives, without pathologizing sisterhood to some terminal end.” –
Film Threat
Oct 17, 2018
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Burning (2018)
95%
10/10
“Like a brooding nightmare, Burning washes over audiences with passing visions of multiple lives, secrets and betrayals, all leading to no single, clean-cut or simple explanation.” –
Film Threat
Oct 5, 2018
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The Man Who Feels No Pain (2018)
95%
9/10
“The Man Who Feels No Pain has enough timely, culturally relevant one-liners to fill an Easter egg basket.” –
Film Threat
Oct 1, 2018
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The Predator (2018)
34%
“Black's latest addition to the franchise cashes in on high-octane action scenes, comedy, self-referential moments and pathological mapping that draws you into the Loonies' psychology, questions of ability and the mission at hand.” –
Shadow and Act
Sep 20, 2018
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Sorry to Bother You (2018)
93%
8/10
“The beauty of Sorry to Bother You is the juggling act. It balances direct, in-your-face Mel Brooksian satire with more hyperlocal, Oakland (and Bay Area) centric moments that reward various levels of well-worn cultural sommeliers.” –
Film Threat
Jul 18, 2018
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G-Funk (2017)
“Now, more than ever, it's crucial that we chronicle and discuss black cultural icons and products, from the good to the bad. And when it comes to something as influential as G-funk and the people behind it, "G-Funk" does just that.” –
Shadow and Act
Jul 11, 2018
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